The Burial at Thebes: A Poetic Rendering of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney

From: Western European Stages | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

A new production of a classic Greek tragedy usually attempts to prove the prescience of the work; how its larger thematic concerns have a contemporary application that defies culture or chronology. The Abbey Theatre's production of The Burial at Thebes, a translation/adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone by Nobel-laureate Seamus Heaney, achieved this paradoxical end by both eliciting the drama's timeless humanity and grounding it in the here and now through explicit references to both Irish idiomatic expressions and recent world events. The show was exciting, moving, and, in its final bloody ...

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