Antigone by Sophokles
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-Celebrated French stage and screen actress Juliette Binoche plays Antigone in a contemporary version of Sophokles’ tragedy, translated afresh by Ann Arbor’s own Anne Carson, a T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet, MacArthur “Genius” grant winner, and former U-M professor of classics and comparative literature. When her dead brother is decreed a traitor and his body left to rot outside the city walls. Antigone refuses to accept this most severe punishment. Defying her uncle, who governs Thebes, she forges ahead with a funeral, placing personal allegiance before politics and ultimately triggering a cycle of destruction. Director Ivo van Hove “has been building steadily on his reputation as one of the most affecting and clearest-sighted directors working in world theater. His intense and solemn work is designed to shake us to the core.” (The Guardian)
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