- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 64pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 196x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9781350335424
- Product code: 530232
X’ntigone
After Sophocles
Darren Murphy New Paperback
Postscript summary
A play ‘written with lockdown in mind’, X’ntigone is set in a modern-day Thebes ravaged by a virus, where the death toll and crashed economy are about to give way to radical change. Creon is the leader following political expedience, while his quarantined niece, X’ntigone, defies him, refusing to denounce her insurgent brother, Polyneices.
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Sometimes a person needs to create an act that destroys the world because the world is broken.
The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been administered and the Festival of Liberty is imminent. Things are finally about to change. The countdown is on but leader Creon and his quarantined niece, the self-identifying X'ntigone, have unfinished business before the celebrations can commence. What happens when old-world order meets a radical new world vision?
In this thrilling meditation on Sophocles' timeless Greek tragedy, political expediency meets the voice of a generation who want to tear down the power structures that have ill-served a crumbling state.
Darren Murphy's X'ntigone is a fresh and vital discourse for our times, when even truth has been sacrificed at the altar of political gain and avarice.
The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been administered and the Festival of Liberty is imminent. Things are finally about to change. The countdown is on but leader Creon and his quarantined niece, the self-identifying X'ntigone, have unfinished business before the celebrations can commence. What happens when old-world order meets a radical new world vision?
In this thrilling meditation on Sophocles' timeless Greek tragedy, political expediency meets the voice of a generation who want to tear down the power structures that have ill-served a crumbling state.
Darren Murphy's X'ntigone is a fresh and vital discourse for our times, when even truth has been sacrificed at the altar of political gain and avarice.
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<p>A play ‘written with lockdown in mind’, <i>X’ntigone</i> is set in a modern-day Thebes ravaged by a virus, where the death toll and crashed economy are about to give way to radical change. Creon is the leader following political expedience, while his quarantined niece, X’ntigone, defies him, refusing to denounce her insurgent brother, Polyneices. </p>
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