Antigone

Two brothers, Polyneikes and Eteocles, fight for the crown of Thebes. They kill each other. The rule is strict and clear: whoever dares to bury Polyneikes will be punished with death. Antigone cannot accept the laws that leave one of her brothers unburied and humiliated. State against Ideals, a young woman against a monarch, the whole town, us, inside the arena. How do you get a diamond out of a stone? ‘I was born to love, not hate’, states Antigone. And there is always a cost for it.

This interpretation of the play is set in 1970’s Northern Ireland, shortly after the Falls Curfew, and focuses on the terrible consequences, tensions and infighting that arise within opposing groups.

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