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New twists add interest to retelling of `Antigone'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860610
Author:Joe Pixler

Antigone Antigone Cynthia Desmond Teiresias Glendon Gabbard Ismene Susan Love Sentry Vince Melocchi Acolyte Maricela Ochoa Eurydice Karen Pratt Messenger Todd Weeks Haemon Stephen West Creon Robert Wilde Percussionist Peter DeFaria Chicago Actors Project presents a play by Sophocles. Adapted and directed by Susan Padveen with Nancy Hahn. Set by Phil Eickhoff, costumes by Marcie Lemieux, lighting by Howard Werner, masks by Kimberley Fitzwater. At 2856 N. Halsted. Through June 22. 472-9728. Antigone's tragic story was largely untold until Sophocles brought it to life in ...

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