Antigone

by Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Antigone has always been a respected member of her community but in civil war all bets are off. She suddenly finds herself on the outside looking in. Everyone has a right to bury their dead. Everyone has a right to give their loved ones a dignified resting place. Yet when the community leaders decide that they need to set an example, they deny Antigone her right to mourn. Faced with the prospect of unresolved grief, she rebels against everything she knows. Her fate is mandated: either fall in line or be outcast forever.

80 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. As an actor, Montgomery Griffiths performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bell Shakespeare, and Australia's Malthouse Theatre among others.

As of 2019, Montgomery Griffiths is director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance in Melbourne.

A scholar of both theatre performance and Classics, Montgomery Griffiths has written adapations of classic Ancient Greek works including Sophocles' "Antigone" and the poetry of "Sappho".