![]() Individuals continue to put their bodies on the line, to stand up and oppose State violence with violence of their own. In her director’s note, Professor Rosenthal writes, “Reading Heaney’s words a decade later, I wonder – where have we come? Has much changed? The fiery and fatal conflicts between the Antigones in our contemporary world and the Creons rage on – whether in the Ukraine, Iraq, Gaza – or Ferguson, Missouri. Heaney’s 2004 translation, written as the war in Iraq was underway, was praised for being “eerily relevant” and “the right story to be telling now.” moral obligation and justice.Īntigone is hailed as one of the most enduring texts in the Western canon. The play raises questions still relevant in our modern day, including state law vs. Antigone sees this harsh treatment of Polyneices as morally wrong and buries him on her own. Creon, the ruler, will give Eteocles a hero’s burial and decrees that Polyneices will be left unburied to rot, because he was a traitor to the state. Her two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, are dead – the former for defending Thebes, the latter for attacking it. ![]() This production, directed by Hofstra Professor Cindy Rosenthal, is an accessible and timeless version of Sophocles’ Antigone, the mythic story of a young woman who dares to stand up for her principles and speak out against the authority of the state. ![]() The Burial at Thebes, translated by Nobel-prize winning poet Seamus Heaney, will be performed at Hofstra University’s Black Box Theater in the New Academic Building from November 7-16, 2014. ![]()
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