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Antigone

Antigone Now

Melissa Cooper

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Early Teen, Late Teen
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
Thebes, Greece, Present Day
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Start: What are you waiting for then? Hoping I’ll melt and beg forgiveness? I won’t. I don’t even know how. We don’t speak the same language, Uncle.

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End: I’m too big, too sharp, too clumsy, too spiky, too gnarled. I’m a running sore. But you know what? Burying my brother was good, and the whole city knows it.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Melissa Cooper, Antigone Now, Playscripts, 2008, p. 24.

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