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Interview: Irish Rep's Charlotte Moore on Directing Seamus Heaney's Iraq War-inspired Adaptation of "Antigone" by J. C. Wright

Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, was written as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Telling the story of one woman who dares to defy a king and society for what she believes is just, The Burial of Thebes is running at the Irish Repertory Theatre in a new production under the direction of Irish Rep’s Artistic Director Charlotte Moore. Here Ms. Moor…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:26PM on January 26, 2016

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