The Virtuous Ideal Superwomen Goes into War With The King In UMD's Antiogine
Sophocles' "Antigone" has been around nearly 2500 years ago, yet the text in the play echo strongly today as in the time of the famous Ancient Greece. Democracy, religion, and gender roles is the leading edge when evaluating "Antigone". Directed by Jenna Soleo-Shanks, the University of Minnesota Duluth theater department production of "Antigone", swings hard demonstrating how much of power and superiority plays a big role thousands of years ago and present day as well. The elements combined to create these astonishing episodes of "Antigone" leaves the audience mind blowing. It was an evening day where the sun was setting outside the University of Minnesota Duluth's Marshall Performing Arts Center, while the indoors held something more valuable to gain from a simple women named Antigone (Tolu Ekisola) won't stand to see her brother's body treated unfairly, so she confronts the king Creon (Ryan Richardson) and buries the body a...