Overview
Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical
resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and
as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all
political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if
there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state
power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and
Creon are part of a problem that only a popular intervention can
confront?
Žižek's rewriting of this classic play confronts these
issues in a practical way: not by theorizing about them, but by
imagining an Antigone in which, at a crucial moment, the action takes a different turn, an Antigone along the lines of Run, Lola, Run or of Brecht's learning plays.
A brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who are interested in reading and watching Antigone in an entirely new way.