MASKERS Theatre Company brings a beautiful new translation of Sophokles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone, originally written 2,500 years ago, to the stage next week.
It is a powerful play hinging on the rights of the individual versus those of the State. Antigone sees her two brothers killed in battle fighting against each other. The king and Antigone’s uncle, Kreon, issues an edict that Eteokles, who fought to defend the city, should be buried with full honours whilst his brother Polyneikes, who attacked the city, should be left unburied on the battlefield.
Antigone decides that she must defy Kreon and bury her brother. She dares to stand up to an authoritarian ruler and say “No.” This act of defiance triggers a sequence of events that will ultimately lead to a cycle of destruction from which there is no escape.
Antigone runs from Tuesday to Saturday at the Maskers Studio in Shirley.
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