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Directed by Ron Bashford

A country at war is led by a tyrant. A single woman stands against him, demanding justice for her brother. The Amherst College Department of Theater and Dance presents Antigone, by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, in a version by the great German director and playwright, Bertolt Brecht. Brecht’s version of Sophocles’ tale of oppression and personal sacrifice offered an incisive look at the dangers of authoritarianism when it was performed in Europe just after World War II. Re-conceived for today’s audiences by faculty director Ron Bashford and an ensemble cast of students, Antigone raises questions as relevant today as they were when Brecht re-discovered Sophocles’ two-thousand-year-old tragedy.

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