PLOT SUMMARY

In 2017, PPA began a collaboration with St. Louis University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts. Lucy Cashion, Assistant Professor of Theatre, and PPA Director of Youth Programs, Rachel Tibbetts, taught weekly poetry, playwriting, and development workshops with PPA participants at the women’s prison (WERDCC) in Vandalia, MO. The group studied, explored, and wrote about the Ancient Greek Princess Antigone.

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Antigone's story of fighting civic law to obey divine law became famous in the Classical Greek tragedy Antigone, which premiered in Athens in 441 B.C. Since then, scholars, poets, and playwrights have written their own translations, adaptations, and critiques of the Antigone story, each from a different point of view. The continuation of this tradition resulted in a new version of Antigone, which was performed in October 2017 by SLU theatre majors in St. Louis.

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The collaboration continued with a performance by PPA participants at WERDCC in March 2018. 

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PRESS

“Antigone Themes Still Strike a Chord in Modern Times” 

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“When Caged Birds Sing”