Her brothers, ruling turn and turn about as Kings of Thebes, have fought and killed one another.
Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus who famously killed his father and married his mother. This adaptation was faithful to the original play and was still exceptionally relevant to day.Īntigone is the third of Sophocles' Theban plays, though, I am told, the first to be written. It really didn't matter that they talked about the gods. These five actors made the play come alive as a very real contemporary dilemma: obey your conscience or obey the law. The Sentry who rushes in grumbling that he didn't really want to come and tell this dreadful news, don't shoot the messenger, and going all around the bushes to avoid telling the terrible tale was sharply told by King Creon to get to the point. This sung accompaniment to the main action made the chorus a key addition to the play.īut the actresses themselves were wonderful and the translation (which bore so many points of resemblace to the one I had read, below) was rendered into realistic dialogue. Then the action started.Ī feature of particular brilliance was that the chorus was played by the cast chanting a capella. Sophocles, of course, would never have needed to do this. They started with one of the actresses reading from a book: " everyone knows that story" they then gave a minute-long retelling of the Oedipus story so that we would know the background to this tale. It was beautifully played by a five woman cast in the round in a tiny, blackened cube of a room with an audience of perhaps 30 so close to the performance area that I worried about tripping the actors with my feet. I saw Antigone at the Hope Theatre in Islington on Saturday 5th March.
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