Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes breathes fresh life into Sophocles’ timeless tragedy, transforming Antigone into a powerful meditation on the clash between personal conscience and state power.
What is it? Performed by the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, The Burial at Thebes is a 21st-century retelling of Sophocles’ Antigone by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and best-selling author ...
Katie Fabel as Ismene and Rebekah Brockman as Antigone in "The Burial At Thebes" at The Irish Repertory Theatre. Directed by Charlotte Moore, written by Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, based on ...
The war has ended. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, learns her brothers are dead. Forced onto opposing sides, they have killed each other in battle. When Creon, King of Thebes, grants the honour of a ...
It's not the Greeks who need us; it's we who need them. The cradle of democracy and theater still has lessons to teach. Regard "The Burial at Thebes," in which Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney reworks ...
Staten Island Advance: Wagner College Theatre presents Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ — How to get 10% off tickets
Wagner College Theatre presents Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ — How to get 10% off tickets
NJ.com: Streamlined 'The Burial at Thebes' is clean take on Greek classic
In Sophocles’ Antigone, written around 442 BCE, the punishment meted out to the play’s iconic title character—and the tragedy that follows—flow from Antigone’s determination to give her brother ...
Lycoming College will host free performances of “The Burial at Thebes,” April 15-18 in the Mary L. Welch Theatre on Mulberry Street. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. “The Burial at Thebes,” written ...