Philip Barnes

The choruses of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone were intended to be performed as song and dance. This project takes the main choruses from the drama and recasts them in a form that consciously invites both music and movement. A similar technique is applied to the monologues of Creon, Ismene, and Antigone. This new translation seeks to expose the musicality of the original Greek without crowding out space for original music. This project is the culmination of collaborations begun two decades ago.