A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him. In punishment Creon orders Oedipus’s rebellious daughter to be entombed alive, lest she sow insurrection among the people.

This is a beautiful new restoration of one of Straub and Huillet’s fiercest and most accessible dramas. Serving as a remarkable conduit from Sophocles’ ancient era to the present moment, Antigone offers a bracingly fresh vision of female power confronting the patriarchy.