The war between the brothers Polynices and Eteocles leads to a deep division in Thebes. King Creon refuses to grant the fallen Polynices a proper burial, prompting Antigone to defy the law and pay her brother the last respects. Conflict and violence not only shake the battlefield but also the moral foundations of a patriarchal society. Antigone's act of resistance, punishable by death, shakes the authoritarian system to its core. With his first production at the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden, Georgian director Mikheil Charkviani poses the question to a democratic society: How prepared are you to defend your moral values?

Bettina Kirmair

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Antigone: Tragedy after Sophocles: by Roland Schimmelpfennig · Staatstheater Wiesbaden

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Antigone: Tragedy after Sophocles: by Roland Schimmelpfennig · Staatstheater Wiesbaden

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