The action unfurls not in ancient Thebes, said Sarah Hemming in the Financial Times, but in a modern-day suburban home, where King Creon is Chris, his niece Antigone is Annie, and her sister ...

That is, the generalized interpretation is that of Antigone as an impassioned private subject, in line with a generalized cliché of femininity, and Creon symbolizing the cold-heartedness of power.

Antigone then defies the new king, Creon, by burying her brother Polynices, who is deemed a traitor and forbidden from receiving a proper burial. Her act of defiance leads to her imprisonment and ...

The play, set in a society governed by strict rules, follows Antigone, a fearless young woman who defies King Creon's orders to give her brother a proper burial, showing individual defiance in the ...