In Moon’s view though, Too Much Memory is just as much about characters as it is about larger ideas, and praises the play’s even-handedness and lack of judgement for either Antigone or Creon.

JL Zhang ’24, who played Creon — king of Thebes and Antigone’s uncle — was drawn to audition for “Antigone” after they saw a National Theatre production of the play. Zhang said that their role as ...

Creon, steadfast in his belief that the law must be upheld, condemns Antigone to death, and she is entombed alive in a cave. The consequences of their actions ripple through the entire city as the ...

Like Antigone, the young woman rebels against an older male – Creon, her father, in […] Skip to content. ... In the flawed characters of Judy and Harper, Gurney, and May, ...

Intimate 'Antigone' staging amplifies the Greek tragedy's big ideas ... offbeat humor — so contemporary without changing text — to the hesitant messenger character chosen to bring Creon bad news.

Oedipus two daughters, Antigone and Ismene, mourn their brothers, yet uncle King Creon, in a politically expedient move, makes one brother a scapegoat and refuses to allow him a proper burial.

Antigone, close readers of that play will know, has her theatrical and diva-like side, whatever the righteousness of her position (in contrast with the self-effacing Ismene, deftly played here by ...

This story seems fairly simple, but as is common with ancient Greek theater, a web of family ties adds complexity to the plot. Family loyalties complicate matters personally both for Antigone, because ...

In this sense, Antigone is reclaimed as a figure of resistance, not, as it has been said, of the individual against power nor against patriarchy: "Antigone is a pitched battle played out in the ...