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...star of this Antigone is Creon, not Antigone. While the recent interest in Antigone as a feminist hero is not ignored, it is not the focus of the production. Creon, the tyrant of Thebes who forbids the burial of Antigone's brother and then punishes her for doing so, is played by John Douglas Thompson. He portrays a young vigorous leader eager to consolidate his position and prove his ability, naive to the moral compromises leadership may require. Thompson has an honest and energetic face that draws the audience to sympathize with Creon. According to Thompson's portrayal, Creon bends...
...exist. Lake Powell was not formed until after 1963, when the government built a huge dam in Glen Canyon to control the waters of the Colorado River and generate hydroelectric power for the growing Southwest. The project outraged environmentalists and archaeologists because it submerged ancient homes, wall writings and burial grounds of the ancient Puebloans. It took 17 years for the Colorado River and other tributaries to fill the gorges and turn Lake Powell into the nation's second largest man-made lake. (Only Lake Mead, which borders Arizona and Nevada, is bigger...
...UMass by the Fleet Financial Corporation before being sold a year later. The last series of installations is a group of 10 fantasy coffins from Ghana, on loan from the west Los Angeles gallery of Ernie Wolfe (Tucker's college roommate.) The coffins are an integral part of burial rites practiced by the Ga and other coastal Ghana communities...
...horror does not even stop with the death of the patient. In fact, infected persons are most contagious just before and just after death, and many cases of Ebola have been documented to come from contact with the dead during burial procedures. The deadly hand of Ebola reaches out even from the grave...
...cast rises to the elements' implicit challenge in this production, one that starts slowly but gains momentum as it marches toward its foretold conclusion. Indeed, Anouilh's 1942 Antigone is not about suspense, but about the inevitability of playing roles. For Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, this means performing burial rites for her slain brother Polynices, who has been declared a traitor of the state and therefore forbidden those rites. For Antigone's uncle Creon, who rules Thebes, it means enforcing the law, even if he should have to execute his niece, who is also engaged to marry his son, Haemon...