The PBS NewsHour ran a deeply moving story tonight about a production of scenes from Sophocles’s Antigone in Ferguson, Missouri. Antigone in Ferguson is the work of Outside the Wire, the theater group that has (among other efforts) staged readings of Sophocles’s Ajax and Philoctetes for military audiences.
Whatever the fate of Sophocles and other representatives of “western civ” in academia, their work remains perpetually relevant to human suffering and human endeavor. Antigone: “Grief for the whole huge disaster of us .” Creon: “Oh weep, weep for the pain of human pain!”
You can learn more about this production from Outside the Wire and Ferguson’s Center for Social Empowerment.
Related reading
All OCA Sophocles posts (Pinboard)
Modest proposals (One of which involves Antigone)
[Lines from Antigone translated by Paul Woodruff, from Sophocles’s Theban Plays (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003).]
Friday, September 23, 2016
Antigone in Ferguson
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Hey, cool! Antigone was your choice for the read-along-before-college!
Maybe the whole USA should watch/read/perform it.
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