Suggests: SoHo Shakespeare Company ANTIGONE

Anouilh’s ANTIGONE was first produced under the Nazi occupation of France in February, 1942. It passed the Nazi censors, and was approved for production by the Third Reich.

Perhaps the classical title was a distraction. In Anouilh’s adaptation we witness the cautionary tale of a party of survivors at war with itself, symbolizing a resistance to fascism and a mirror to our own fractured present. This is the tragedy of a "new order" fractured by a generational divide: between a veteran guard that "said yes" to the burden of leadership, and an iconoclastic generation that "says no" to the sacrifices that follow.

SoHo Shakespeare Company's ANTIGONE

Into the not-so-distant future: The time is 2030, and the neo-fascist Regime 47 has entered its Third Term in The United States. Creon is a King who rules over the North East Quarter of the country, while the 47th President continues to rule over…