Antigone

Synopsis

In the wake of the power struggle between his late nephews, Creon is left to fill the vacant throne of Thebes and establish order in a nation tainted by its former king's transgressions and ravaged by civil war. As his first act, he decrees that only one of the brothers' bodies may receive a proper burial; the other is left to putrefy out in the open, to be picked apart by animals. Anyone who dares to bury the body will be condemned to death. What Creon does not anticipate is that the person to defy him will be another one of Oedipus' children: his niece, Antigone.

Anouilh finally tells the ancient story of Antigone as it was meant to be told, where lofty ideas and poetry take a backseat to the deeply visceral, human tragedy of people brought to their lowest: "And when the weight of all of heaven is on your back, all you can do is cry out. And I don't mean moan or whine or whimper, I mean really cry out, really heave your guts to heaven."

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