Antigone - Mecklenburg State Theater (Limassol)

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Antigone by Sophocles, performed by the Mecklenburg State Theater of Germany.

This version of Antigone was written during the Nazi occupation of France and is regarded as a hymn to resistance against tyranny.

Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC. Chronologically, it is the third of the three Theban plays but was written first. The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends.

Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon's watchmen and brought before the king. She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is betrothed, pleads in vain for her life and threatens to die with her. Warned by the seer Teiresias Creon repents him and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky prison. But he is too late: he finds lying side by side Antigone who had hanged herself and Haemon who also has perished by his own hand. Returning to the palace he sees within the dead body of his queen who on learning of her son's death has stabbed herself to the heart.

This performance is part of the 13th International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama.

When

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Time: Starts at 21:00

Where

Episkopi, Limassol Cyprus

Cost

€17/€12

Contact

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Phone: 22674920-99542165

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