Antigone

Park Square Theatre
20 W 7th Pl St. Paul

The story of ANTIGONE, the last in a trilogy by Sophocles, is rooted in civil disobedience, set in the aftermath of civil war. Oedipus' two sons have killed each other in a fight for the crown of Thebes. Their uncle Creon becomes king and declares that Eteocles will receive holy burial while his brother Polynices is left unburied to rot at the gates of the city as a warning to other traitors. Their sister Antigone can't accept this desecration. Knowing full well it will result in her own death, Antigone determines to bury Polynices, so his soul may rest.