Both Antigone's brothers lie dead, having killed each other in single combat, one attacking Thebes, the other defending the city. Creon, ruler of Thebes, has forbidden the burial of Polyneices, because he was the attacker. Antigone is determined to bury him. The resulting conflict ends in a bloodbath of suicides.
Antigone was first performed in the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s on 24th October 2008 by Prime Cut Productions.
DIRECTED BY Owen McCafferty
CAST INCLUDES
Old Man - Walter McMonagle
Antigone - Katy Ducker
Ismene - Rosie McClelland
Creon - Ian McElhinney
Guard - Conor MacNeill
Haemon - Paul Mallon
Tiresias - Harry Towb
Young Boy - Eoin McCafferty
- Tom Loane
Messenger - Chris Corrigan
Eurydice - Julia Dearden
Soldiers - Cat Barter
- Barry Etherson
- Matt Faris
Set Design - Lorna Ritchie
Lighting Design - Ciaran Bagnall
Sound Design - Kevin McCullagh
“muscular, tender, pragmatic”
