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Age of Antigone: Sophocles's arresting tale of the debt we owe the dead by Michael Billington

With three new versions on stage this month, the ancient Greek classic " and its reflections on authority and devotion " remains as compelling as ever This October sees a rash of productions based on Sophocles's Antigone. Given that the heroine defies the Theban king, Creon, by burying her dead brother, Polyneices, maybe the collective noun should be "a disruption of Antigones". Both Merlynn Tong's version at the Mer…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:24am on October 4, 2021

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