A river of blood flows through Anne Carson’s “Antigonick.” A strange and spare collage drawn from Sophocles’ “Antigone,” this enigmatic 75-minute production revels in Carson’s lean and muscular poetry ...
“Anne Carson has done a very special thing with this translation,” says student dramaturg Ashley Clark. “She does away with the fluff that makes Antigone an ‘unreachable’ Greek tragedy to the average ...
See Sophocles’ ancient and disturbing tragedy “Antigone” with fresh language and new life in a poetic and thrilling production, “Antigonick,” Oct. 24-Nov. 1 at Westmont’s Porter Theatre. Tickets to ...
Shotgun Players’ incendiary production of “Antigonick” that opened Thursday at Shotgun’s Ashby Stage is an intensely felt, richly inventive and resonant show. MacArthur “Genius” poet Anne Carson’s ...
There’s a terrible resonance to the story of a young woman who stands alone against an oppressive government. Shotgun Players’ Antigonick is the third bold new interpretation of Sophocles’ ancient ...
There’s almost nothing that isn’t interesting, at times fascinating, about Shotgun Players’ dance-infused production of “Antigonick,” poet Anne Carson’s adaptation of the ancient Greek tale of the ...
Long ago, during one of those late-night chin-wags beloved of self-conscious undergrads, a dorm-mate erupted into a tirade against Sophocles’ Antigone, whom she deemed “a useless martyr.” And while I ...
The company that received international media attention for their nude, body-positive productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest and Hamlet and Aphra Behn's The Rover, is thrilled to return to Prospect ...
In her updated rendition of the play she calls the Antigonick by Sophokles, Anne Carson fashions a protagonist with the headspace of a suicide bomber. Her Antigone is in love with the idea of ...
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