Name: Antigone
Start: 2025-10-23T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-26T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Sweet Briar College

Antigone

Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar Theatre presents ANTIGONE by Sophocles. Translated by Anne Carson. Directed by Robert Quillen Camp.

<h3>Antigone by Sophocles</h3>Translated by Anne Carson Directed by Robert Quillen CampWritten by Sophocles between 440 and 442 BC, Antigone presents a clash between the power of the state and the imperatives of filial duty. Declared a traitor to Thebes in the aftermath of the Theban civil war, Antigone’s dead brother Polynices has been left unburied outside the city gates. In attempting to honor her brother with a proper burial, Antigone defies her uncle Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, resulting in a cascade of tragic consequences. Renowned poet and classicist Anne Carson renders the power of Sophocles’s language in a stark and thrilling translation that makes the questions that animate the play immediate and compellingly relevant.Oct. 23 - Oct. 25 | 7:30 p.m. | Murchison Lane Auditorium (Babcock Fine Arts Center)Oct. 26 | 2:00 p.m. | Murchison Lane Auditorium (Babcock Fine Arts Center)

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