Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney\'s new verse translation of Sophocles\' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in Western drama.
Faithful to the \'local row\' and to the fierce specificity of the play\'s time and place, The Burial at Thebes honours the separate and irreconcilable claims of its opposed voices, as they enact the ancient but pere.
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney\'s new verse translation of Sophocles\' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in Western drama
