Comissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, this text features Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great...
'The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the...
[New] edition / translated by Don Taylor ; with commentary and notes by Angie Varakis
Antigone, defying her uncle Creon's decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man's law overruling the laws of the gods...
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied by Hitler's Army. It depicts an authoritarian regime mirroring the predicament...