The Antigone Project
This piece reconsiders the classic story from a variety of perspectives of race, class and gender. Five award-winning female playwrights bring very different explorations of Sophocles’s tragedy to life.
With such settings as World War I, a modern African village, and the underworld of Hades, we see a sister’s love and devotion through many lenses in a work that The New York Times lauded as “engaging, seductive, and wildly divergent”. This is a unique addition to contemporary drama.
By Karen Hartman, Tanya Barfield, Caridad Svich, Lynn Nottage, and Chiori Miyagawa
Directed by David R. Gammons
February 22-25, 2018
Emerson College’s Semel Theater
$12
Image Credit: Emerson Stage/Accent Design