Tag Archives: Antigone

Postcards from the Border at the Clarice, Mar 25-26

Postcards from the Border at the Clarice, Mar 25-26

Clarice presents:
Postcards from the Border
by Carrie Rodriguez, Oscar Cásares & Joel Salcido

Wed, Mar. 25, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Thu, Mar. 26, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Postcards from the Border is an empathic, multimedia piece at the intersection of music, spoken word and film that offers an intellectual and uniquely Latin American perspective on the lines bisecting both our maps and our hearts.

Oscar Cásares, an acclaimed novelist from the Rio Grande Valley, wanted to share his experience of growing up on the border with his 10-year-old daughter, Elena. To tell this story, Cásares and photographer Joel Salcido traveled the length of the Rio Grande, from El Paso and Juarez to Brownsville and Matamoros to reveal his roots and the subtle and profound details of those who live there.

Originally appearing in Texas Monthly, those words and images are now brought to life in a new stage production with music by celebrated singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez and her five-piece band, narrated by Cásares alongside Salcido’s stirring images. This is a story steeped in the rich and inspiring history of America. Here, in this corner of the country, kids are raised to cross fluidly into both cultures and languages, to listen to pop music as easily as they do polkas and rancheras, to speak to their teachers in English and their grandparents in Spanish, and to everyone else in both languages, often simultaneously. Together, these artists will illuminate the often-overlooked stories of generations of families at the edge of our country. This is the story of the border you’ve never heard.

Don’t miss a post-show conversation and Q&A with the artist immediately following the Wed, Mar 25 performance!

Tickets: $35, Students/Youth: $15. Click here.

Amm(i)gone at the Clarice, Dec 4-6

Amm(i)gone at the Clarice, Dec 4-6

Clarice presents:
Amm(i)gone
By Sophocles
Translated and presented by Adil Mansoor

Thu, Dec. 4, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Fri, Dec. 5, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Sat, Dec. 6, 2025 | 7:00 pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Adil Mansoor is a Virgo Pakistani-American theater queerdo. His mother is an Aquarian hijabi Quranic scholar. Since she discovered Adil’s queerness online, their once-close bond now needs rescue. In Amm(i)gone, a portmanteau of “ammi” (“mother” in Urdu) and the Greek heroine Antigone, Mansoor invites us on a journey of heartbreak and repair between mother and son as they embark on an examination and translation of Sophocles’ Antigone into Urdu. Passionately mining Greek tragedy, Islam and their own memories, they seek to recover their love across faith.

Post-Show Conversation: Don’t miss a post-show conversation and Q&A with the artists immediately following the Thu, Dec 4 & Fri, Dec 5 performances!

Tickets: $35, Students/Youth: $15. Click here.

Theater of War presents Antigone in Ferguson at Clarice Smith, Nov 29

Theater of War presents Antigone in Ferguson at Clarice Smith, Nov 29

Theater of War
Antigone in Ferguson

Thursday, November 29, 2018 . 8PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre

What happens when personal conviction clashes against state law? How do we bridge the ever-growing divide between law enforcement officers and the American communities they are charged with protecting? Acclaimed actors, police officers, local educators and concerned community members come together for dramatic readings and powerful gospel settings that bring to life Sophocles’ eternal Greek tragedy in Antigone in Ferguson – a ground-breaking social justice theatre project that aims to generate much-needed dialogue, to foster compassion and understanding, and to inspire taking positive action.

Free, tickets are required. Click here.

Antigone at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Nov 14-16

Antigone at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Nov 14-16

Eleanor Roosevelt High School Theatre Department presents:
Antigone
by Sophocles
Translated by Nicholas Rudall

Location: Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt.

November 14 – 16, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7pm
Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 7pm
Friday, November 16, 2018 at 7pm

Tickets: $5. Click here.

Antigone at Clarice Smith, Oct 6-13

Antigone at Clarice Smith, Oct 6-13

Antigone
By Sophocles
Translated by Brendan Kennelly
Directed by Lisa Nathans

October 6 – 13, 2017.

Fri, Oct 6, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sat, Oct 7, 2017 . 2:00PM
Sat, Oct 7, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sun, Oct 8, 2017 . 2:00PM
Tue, Oct 10, 2017 . 7:30PM
Wed, Oct 11, 2017 . 7:30PM
Thu, Oct 12, 2017 . 7:30PM
Fri, Oct 13, 2017 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre

Antigone, a young woman, speaks truth to power, firmly convinced that she is right in following her moral imperative. Her King, Creon, is firmly convinced of the opposite – his law should be obeyed. This elemental ancient play about primordial human themes – honor, loyalty, love, betrayal and conviction – resonates as sharply and as damningly today as it did when it was written 2,500 years ago. This production will focus on the paradox of who is right versus who is wrong… Antigone or Creon? With the help of a modern Greek chorus, audiences will come to their own conclusions.

Note: Tickets to the evening performance on Saturday, October 7 include admission to a pre-show lecture by James Hollis, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington, starting at 6:30pm. His lecture is entitled, “Antigone’s Dilemma: An Introduction to the Universality of Choice and Consequence.”

Tickets: General Admission: Regular $25, Student/Youth: $10

Click here.