Overview
Character Name
Antigone
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Early Teen, Late Teen
Role Size
Lead
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
Thebes, Greece, Present Day
Analysis
Antigone is a troubled teenager. Her parents, Oedipus and Jocasta, were the king and queen of Thebes. After discovering that Jocasta was his mother, Oedipus gouged his eyes out, and Jocasta hung herself. The night before the play begins, Antigone’s surviving brothers,
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