Work of | Sofocle
Direction | Robert Carsen
Translation | Francesco Morosi

It is dawn in Thebes, a dawn of victory: the city’s army, led by Oedipus’s son Eteocles, has defeated the army of Argos, led by Polynices, Oedipus’s other son, who came to reclaim the throne. But in a fratricidal conflict, Eteocles and Polynices killed each other, and the throne has now passed to their uncle Creon. As his first act, Creon has decided to grant funeral honors to Eteocles, leaving the body of Polynices, an enemy of the state, unburied. Antigone, his sister, rebels against the edict: she transgresses the law and buries the body. For this, Creon condemns her to be locked forever in a cave: the words of Ismene—Antigone’s sister—and Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s betrothed, are of no avail. But the will of the gods manifests itself, and Creon understands it too late: and so he loses Antigone and Haemon, who die by suicide, and his wife Eurydice, who takes her own life upon hearing of her son’s death.

MAY

09/11/13/15/17/18/20/22/24/26/28/30/

JUNE

01/03/05/