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AntigoneANCIENT_SophoclesWest

Westminster Theatre site
OGCMA s.v. "Antigone"

The director of the Utah Greek Theatre Festival's production of Antigone (Fall 2012) uses the play to comment upon the Arab Spring of 2011.

The production's adverts (.pdf) display prominently the Hamlet quote withouit explaining its inclusion: "She doth protest too much, methinks". The Director's program notes clarify that the production lionizes Time magazine's selection of The Protester as the 2011 Person of the Year. From the Arab Spring to the year-ending Occupy Wall Street movements, 2011 was the year of the protest. This production casts Antigone as a person of the same bent, a protester whose stance ends problematically.

Poster for BYU's Classical Greek Theatre Festival performance of "Antigone," featuring a masked face and event details

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled forThe Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.