![]() The clean, contemporary style lines built to sculpt each body with a tightly controlled color palette, aim for poetic simplicity. Those of lower status were muted in a gray wash, much like the white and gray of statues in classical art. ![]() ![]() The opposed and irreconcilable voices of family and the state enact an ancient but perennial conflict, where the morality of private allegiance is pitched against that of public service. Harking back to clothing shown in classical art, the royal-presidential family imitates colors of Greek “Red-Figure” pottery: red, black, and orange. The Burial at Thebes honours explores the dangers of pride and absolute belief regardless of personal, political and moral consequences. Color is the distinguishing factor to visually delineate class and position within the dress of a contemporary world. ![]() ![]() Set in a mythic land halfway between ancient Thebes and Washington D.C., this contemporary adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone asks which is more important, the laws of man or the laws of the gods? This theis production focus on the politcal and the personal investigation of American culture.Įach character’s silhouette is built around the images we see so frequently on the news, in papers and in social media. presents The Burial at Thebes The conflicts between individual freedom and the security of the state, as well as the limits of divine and civil law, get a theatrical examination in Lawrence University’s production of The Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles Antigone. Forum Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego CA Casting 'The Burial at Thebes,' a version of Sophocles, 'Antigone,' adapted by Irish Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, based on the fifth century, B.C. ![]()
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