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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20021211
Author:Chaudhuri, Una

Big Dance Theater Helps Reinvent Sophocles

ANTIGONE

By Mac Wellman

Performed by Big Dance Theater

Dance Theater Workshop

219 West 19th Street

212-924-0077

Sophocles has some catching up to do. Long before his unyielding Antigone took her place in one of the most monumental of world drama's agons, she was rehearsing more supple and playful identities for herself, along with some perturbing proposals for anyone who believes that there are only two sides to any conflict. This other Antigone-a pre-- Antigone as much as a post-, whose story is later whispered into the ear of a puppet ...

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