![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a Flex Pass holder, please call ahead to reserve your seat. Masks are required for all patrons and staff. Tickets are available now by calling box office manager Julie McKnight at (208) 282-3330, or purchasing online at isu.edu/tickets. ![]() It’s going to be a beautiful and tragic production – I cannot recommend it enough!” On the production end, legitimate costumes and choral masks are being made from scratch while scenery and lighting are busily experimenting with brand new technologies and effects that I don’t want to spoil for audiences. “This particular adaptation offers our acting students an opportunity to work with powerful language, dangerously high stakes, and traditional Greek chorus work. “The Department is thrilled to usher in the new school year with a strong season of shows to share with the entire community, said Show Director Joel Shura. The hostile environment causes the characters to question their morals and beliefs, and they have to decide whether they believe in divine law or human law. This is a grace in the text for which we must applaud or blame Seamus Heaney. How little strict it is may be seen in Heaney’s use of Cadmus and the dragon’s teeth in the passage that we have been comparing. A young woman goes against the king's decree which leads to brutal and catastrophic consequences. The Burial at Thebes is, then, a version rather than a strict translation. After the conclusion of a civil war, the king of Thebes begins to strengthen his city. “The Burial at Thebes” by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, is a contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Antigone. Idaho State University’s School of Performing Arts will present The Burial at Thebes on Oct 1, 2, 7, 8, and 9 at 7:30 pm in the Black Box Theatre in the L.E. ![]()
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