In the quiet dawn at the end of the civil war, one of the last surviving daughters of the ruling household slips away to bury her traitor brother. By the end of the day, her simple act of love will have brought the state to its knees. 

Sophocle's Antigone is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama. In 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Paris, the great French playwright Jean Anouilh adapted the ancient drama and it was seen by the French as theatre resistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of authority. 

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Anouilh's Antigone cuts to the core of one of the conundrums of the twenty first century: how to balance the heart of the individual with the ever shifting demands of the state. The burning battle between Antigone and her uncle the ruler Creon, unfolds with fierce dramatic logic and terrifying precision. And in Creon's well intentioned path to catastrophe we get a truly brilliant portrait of flawed leadership. This is a classic play about here and now.