You love your family, but do you love your country? You’re either civil, or you’re barbaric. You’re beautiful, or repulsive. Either you believe in free will, or in fate.
Can you love a terrorist? Should a leader rule with his heart, or his head? Do you compromise? Do you live by your principles? Or… Do you die?
After two brothers die in a civil war, one is given a state funeral while the other, Polynices, is left to rot in the street. His sister defies the King’s orders and attempts to bury Polynices.
Amid all the moral tumult of a world in upheaval stands Antigone – pure in purpose, strong in will, and destined to die.
Jean Anouilh’s impassioned re-imagining of this great tragedy, directed by David Paterson, is brought to life – weeping, gasping, fighting – in the evocative environs of Brisbane’s underground reservoir.
