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New `Antigone' recalls ancient truth.(SOURCE)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20051105
Author:Royce, Graydon

Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer

In this age of obstinate hubris, we neglect the classics at our peril. As political debate screams at the extremes, righteous certitude mutes compromise or retreat. Sophocles mused on these questions with his "Antigone," and now playwright Emily Mann has found relevance for us, 25 centuries later. The Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company plays out Mann's script and again demonstrates a facility with the Greek idiom.

Sophocles proposes that vengeful pride bears a cost. Civil war between Oedipus' sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, has sundered ...

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