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The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art.
Antigone is named after the ancient Greek heroine of Sophocles’s play, an independent-minded daughter who does what she wants, with tragic results.
On her return to songwriting, Eiko Ishibashi provides an elusive soundtrack to the end of the world as we know it on 'Antigone.' ...
The 'Pietro Giannone' high school of Caserta arrives in India with the short film 'Antigone', competing at the 'Jagran Film Festival'. The short film will be screened today, tomorrow, Saturday ...
The story of Antigone, in a nutshell, is that the daughter of Oedipus learns her two brothers have died in war. King Kreon honors one with a proper burial, but rules the other brother be left on the ...
‘What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne Carson’s 2015 translation, it’s part of the way she updates the language. It also ...
Alexander Raptotasios’ thrilling update of Sophocles’ tragedy draws on the story of Isis bride Shamima Begum to let the audience vote on questions of morality ...
One of Europe’s most boldly imaginative, avant-garde political theatre-makers Milo Rau makes his thunderous, earth-shaking debut at Sydney Festival with Antigone in the Amazon. An NTGent ...
This is "Antigone" as "modern psychodrama, digging deep into the fears, desires and taboos that surge through it. The result is both surprisingly funny and shockingly frank." ...
Skala Theatre presents the nationwide premiere of the play Antigone after Sophocles by Loula Ratska, directed by Maria Varnakkidou. The play premiered in Larnaca at the end of June and ...
On February 25, the Court Theater presented director Gabrielle Randle-Bent’s production of Sophocles’s Antigone. On one hand, the loose interpretation of the classic Greek tragedy is disorienting from ...
UChicago’s Court Theatre breathes new life into ‘Antigone’ Final chapter in the Oedipus Trilogy takes on love, justice and standing up to power ...