Antigone, Ismene and Polynices are all the children of Oedipus At the start of the play, they meet secretly. Antigone wants to bury her brother - it's a sacred duty - but Ismene is afraid that Creon ...

Because Antigone buries her dead brother, Creon sentences her to death. That brother, Polynices, is not even mentioned by name in Anna Ziegler’s provocative play “Antigone (This Play I Read in High ...

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The ancient Greeks were not Christian, Jewish or Islamic. Yet in the first few minutes of South Coast Repertory’s provocative “Antigone” -- the company’s first production of a Greek tragedy -- emblems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tony Shalhoub and Susannah Perkins in "Antigone" (Joan Marcus) Because Antigone buries her dead brother, Creon sentences her to ...