Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (1)

...Sophocles' Theban plays – Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Kolonos and Antigone – stand at the fountainhead of world drama; they tell the story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power both mortal and godlike...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (13), Female (3), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...In his Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama, Kenneth McLeish writes: “Antigone is a textbook example of how to develop one short episode from a myth-story to make a full-scale tragedy articulating universal themes and meanings… The fact...

Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (2)

...When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say ‘No’. Forging ahead with a funeral alone...

Currency Press, 2017

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (11), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (1)

...Who here can tell what law we owe the dead? Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, is a child of war. Thousands of years ago she asked a question: What do we do with the body of the enemy when this enemy is our brother...

Oberon Books, 2020

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Acts: 9, Roles: Total (2), Female (2), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...The war is over. The dead have been buried. The traitors have been punished. People feel more alive than they have in a long time. They are ready to start again. But Antigone is not. She will not move on, and she...

Methuen Drama, 2023

Student Editions

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Roles: Total (13), Female (3), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious...

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...For learning resources, visit this page. Age recommendation: 14+ (some strong, bloody images) This archive recording was captured on 4th July, 2012. In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his...

Methuen Drama, 1990

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Electra is a story of revenge, of children on their mother, and the grief and fury of a woman when her filial duties are split down the middle. When the victorious King Agamemnon returns from Troy, carting his new mistress...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father’s assassination, is consumed by grief and a thirst for vengeance. When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (10), Female (1), Male (7), Unassigned (2)

...God is on fire – his fever is plague. All that was sweet is spilt and gone. The people of Thebes look to Oedipus to lift a terrible curse from them and their city....

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (9), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (1)

...Sophocles' Theban plays – Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Kolonos and Antigone – stand at the fountainhead of world drama; they tell the story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power both mortal and godlike...

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...One of the first and greatest of all Greek tragedies, Harry Lennix stars as Oedipus, the king who unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother. Includes a Q & A session with translator and director Nicholas Rudall. An L.A. Theatre...

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (10), Female (2), Male (7), Unassigned (1)

...Sophocles' Theban plays – Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Kolonos and Antigone – stand at the fountainhead of world drama; they tell the story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power both mortal and godlike...

Video

...The story of one sister’s loyalty to both her brothers, regardless of their acts or opposing political beliefs, Antigone is one of the most consistently popular plays in the history of drama. This translation, by Don Taylor...

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...Sophocles' Theban plays – Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Colonos and Antigone – stand at the fountainhead of world drama; they tell the story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power, both mortal and godlike...

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...This Greek tragedy tells the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes and husband of Jocasta. When the discovery is made that he is the son of the same Jocasta and of the previous king Laius (whom he has unwittingly murdered), Oedipus blinds...