The adaptation was first performed in Ferguson, then taken on the road – where I saw it in 2017 in a playground in the shadow of the Howard public housing projects in Brownsville, Brooklyn.īryan Doerries, artistic director of Theater of War Productions, serving as emcee of “The Suppliant Project” at the University of Notre Dame football stadium. His company, now called Theater of War Productions, had its most high-profile success with “Antigone in Ferguson,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old tragedy, inspired by the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014 by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Since 2009, theater artist Bryan Doerries, well-versed in Ancient Greek, has been presenting readings of classic plays, primarily those by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, with increasingly starry casts, to stimulate discussion about current issues facing specific communities. Left to right: Keith David as Danaus, father of the fleeing women Anthony Edwards as King Pelasgus, Tate Donovan as head of the invadersĪ little background (borrowed from the write-up when Theater of War won one of the American Connected Theater Awards for Pandemic Year 2):
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