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BOCA RATON, FL (April 4, 2006) - Florida Atlantic University’s department of theatre presents Sophocles’ tragedy “Antigone” from Friday, April 14 through Sunday, April 23. Shows begin at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and 2 p.m. on Sundays in the Studio One Theatre of FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. General admission tickets are $20. FAU students may obtain free admission, and FAU faculty, staff and alumni tickets are $10. Tickets can be purchased by calling 800-564-9539, by visiting www.fauevents.com or at the theatre two hours prior to the performance.

In Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of Sophocles’ classic work, Antigone is mourning the death of her brother Polynices, who was put to death because he was considered to be an enemy of the state. The King has decreed that Polynices should not be buried because he has disgraced his country, and so his body is left out in a field. Antigone, however, defies the King and arranges for Polynices’ burial. She is arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

“Anouilh has captured all the elements of the Greek tragedy – death, mourning, jealousy and sadness,” said Tom Atkins, director of the play and professor of theatre at FAU. “This production brings all those elements to the stage.”

Concurrent to the production of “Antigone,” the classical studies program in FAU’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters will present an in-depth look at various aspects of Greek tragedies in a series of free lectures. On Monday, April 17 at 2 p.m. Katerina Synodinou of the University of Ioannina in Greece will present “Transgressive Women in Ancient Greek Tragedy, Part 1: Medea,” and on Tuesday, April 18, at 2 p.m. she will continue with the lecture “Transgressive Women in Ancient Greek Tragedy, Part II: Clytemnestra and Antigone.” Both lectures will take place in the Kenneth R. Williams Administration Building, Room 305, on FAU’s Boca Raton campus. On Wednesday, April 19 at noon, Synodinou will lead a seminar entitled: “Slavery Revisited: Some Aspects of Slavery in Euripides” in the Social Science Building, Room 105.

For further information on the lectures, contact Konstantinos Nikoloutsos at 561-297-0497 or nikolout@fau.edu. For further information on “Antigone,” contact FAU’s Department of Theatre at 561-297-3810.

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