Antigone Performance at Artheum

As part of the 4th Beirut Art Book Fair, Artheum will be hosting a performance by “Antigone” based on Sophocles and J. Alnouih’s texts. It will be performed by AUB students, under the direction of Cornelia Krafft.

Synopsis: Oedipus has just passed away in Colonus, and Antigone and her sister decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, avoid a prophecy that predicts they will kill each other in a battle for the throne of Thebes.

Upon her arrival in Thebes, Antigone learns that both of her brothers are dead. Eteocles has been given a proper burial, but Creon, Antigone’s uncle who has inherited the throne, has issued a royal edict banning the burial of Polyneices, who he believes was a traitor. Antigone defies the law, buries her brother, and is caught. When Creon locks her away in prison, she kills herself.