Antigone

Name: Antigone
Start: 2025-03-07T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-07T22:00:00-05:00
Location: 2936 N Southport Ave, 60657

Schedule

Fri Mar 07 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2936 N Southport Ave, 60657 | Chicago, IL

The most beautiful thing offered to humans is our capacity to love, and the most difficult? Loyalty to God in the face of human opposition—a relevant topic today, as the two are increasingly at odds. Human nature doesn’t change however, and over 2,500 years ago, we see in this story a young woman of Thebes facing the same challenge.
Antigone. Her soon-to-be father-in-law condemns her brother to death—as a traitor. And not only this, but decrees that his body must languish unburied outside the city gates. She stands in a moral dilemma: does she bury him anyway?—obeying her conscience and the law of the Gods, or must she submit these to the will of the State?
Going to her brother’s body, outside the confines of the civic community, her act of defiance sets off a chain of tragic events, culminating not only in her death, but the death of several others close to the King. Through Antigone’s courage and Creon’s inflexibility, the we see the results of unwavering adherence to the rule of law and the personal cost of choosing loyalty to one’s own conscience and the law of the Gods.
With a novel production that intersperses visuals and music to fully immerse the audience in this story, one that will inspire us in the face of complexities, to choose love.
More info: https://athenaeumcenter.org/events/2024/antigone/