THEATER
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY, JULY 3 - 6, 2019 (continuing through JULY 13)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY

Theater of War: Antigone in Ferguson
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

Free (by registration)
https://www.stannholytrinity.org/event/antigone-in-ferguson/

We long ago saw, in The Gospel at Colonus, how eloquently and effectively a gospel choir could function as the chorus in a Greek tragedy. Now, in the wake of the murder at Ferguson, Missouri, that approach takes its gloves off. A rotating cast of high-powered New York actors reads excerpts fromSophocles's Antigone (about, as I don't have to tell you, resisting oppressive governmental power), with choral interjections by members of Brooklyn and Ferguson gospel choirs: activists, police officers, youth, citizens. An audience discussion follows -- not, the creators of this piece emphasize, a post-performance "talk back", but rather an integral part of the piece.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It's funny to say so about such a homey place, but Polish standby Teresa's shines like a beacon in the food desert that is Montague Street.