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‘Antigone’ by Sophocles Will Be Staged At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus in April 26-30

Brooklyn, N.Y. – Sophocles’ Antigone, which focuses on the claims of the state versus individual conscience, will be staged at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus at the end of April.

Directed by Ariel Nazryan, the production is sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre. Performances will take place at the Campus’s Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, April 26-30, Wednesday to Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $13; with student ID, $10.

In Greek mythology, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, refuses to submit to earthly authority when it forbids a proper burial for her brother. In Sophocles’ drama, Antigone and her sister, Ismene, follow their father into exile at Colonus. Her brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, are fighting in a war against each other and ultimately kill each other in battle. Creon, newly appointed King of Thebes, refuses the radical Polyneices a proper burial.

Antigone rebels against Creon and performs the burial service for her brother herself. Creon sentences Antigone to be buried alive and once entombed, she hangs herself.

The director of the theatre is professor John Sannuto. For more information, call the Kumble Theater at (718) 488-1624.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. More than 28,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s residential and regional campuses, including more than 13,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.