The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone
At one level it is hard to think of much to say about this - but that is a mark of the success, there is an effortlessness and an integrity about it which mean you don't see the effort and the craft of SeamuHenna.
The play speaks as powerfully to the contemporary as it did to the ancient world, and I think this is particularly so reading it with the back drop of the unrest in the Middle East and the brutal repression that leaders there seem to think will save them - is not Creon the archetype of "the Strong Man" - they cling on to power yet in the end what worth is absolute power over dust and ashes?
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