Antigone
Ella Stevens as ChorusNovember, 2024
By Sophocles, Translated by Anne Carson
at Northwestern University, Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center, Louis Theater
Directed by Tae-Heum Yeon
Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by poet and MacArthur Fellow Anne Carson, remains unequaled in its ability to combine all the fundamental contradictions of the human condition into a single, universally relevant drama. Following the bloody power struggle between her brothers, Antigone attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polyniekis, thus defying the edict of her uncle, King Kreon. Antigone is accused of treachery and must answer to Kreon himself.
