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LIVERMORE HIGH SCHOOL
presents
SOPHOCLES' "ANTIGONE"

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Sophocles’ Antigone, a Greek tragedy, is the LHS fall play.  As the text notes state, “The play exists most fully in the tension between equally valid, powerful, divergent points-of-view which engage the characters and the audience in an ongoing debate.  Everyone in the action, from their own point of view, is fighting to protect important values; to stop someone they love from making a terrible mistake.” 

Antigone [Rachael Hastings] and her sister Ismene [Emily Serdahl] are the last of the House of Oedipus.  On the day that both their brothers kill each other in mortal combat, their uncle, Creon [Jordan Adelman] becomes the King of Thebes.  His first act is to forbid the burial of one of their two brothers.  Antigone says she will obey the law of the gods and bury her brother; Creon states that she must obey the law of the land.  Each has strong and convincing reasons for their actions and neither will compromise. Creon is advised by an elder of Thebes, the Senator [Tyler Campbell].  Antigone is to wed the son of Creon and Eurydice [Brinda Dixit], Haimon [Benjamin Hall] and when she is condemned to death, Haimon argues with his father to free Antigone.  Tieresias [Candice Evenson], the blind prophet, is witness to all that unfolds in the City of Thebes and pronounces the will of the gods the consequences of the actions of Creon and Antigone fall upon the people of Thebes—a chorus of thirty. 

Please join us for a powerful drama as current and insightful today as it was 2,500 years ago in Sophocles’ time.  Performances are December 5, 6, 11, 12, and 13, 2008 at 8pm in the Livermore Performing Arts Theatre.  Tickets are $8. All seats are reserved.  Tickets can be purchased at the door or by calling Carol Hovey at 606-4812, ext. 2446 to reserve your tickets in advance.

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