by Kirsty Lang, BBC, UK – I read Antigone a few weeks before going to Beirut. I was interviewing the Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche as she rehearsed for a new production in London, and I thought I should get up to speed before we spoke.
For those who don’t know the play, Antigone is the story of a young woman whose city had been ripped apart by civil war. Her dead brother is lying outside the walls and she wants to bury him. But he’d fought on the losing side and his body has been left out to rot as an example. If Antigone defies the king’s decree and buries him, she herself will face death.
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