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Chicago Theater Review: ANTIGONICK (Sideshow Theatre Company at Victory Gardens) by Lawrence Bommer

SOPHOCLES, ANCIENT BENDER OF GENDERS This "free translation" of Sophocles' timeless tragedy about a sister against the state is only 75 minutes long. Even so, Antigonick manages to almost completely repeat itself. The catch or switch is that the protagonists' sexes are reversed, as if to prevent a universal conflict from ever being sex-specific. Thanks to Canadian […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:14PM on March 6, 2015

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