STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Theatre is presenting “Antigone” this month, and tickets are on sale now for the Stage One production.

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After Oedipus’ son Polyneices attacks his home city of Thebes and is killed in battle, Creon, king of Thebes, forbids the burial of his body. But Antigone defies the order and chooses to bury her brother, even if the world stands against her.

Written more than 2,000 years ago by Sophocles and translated by Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, Antigone asks whether we should follow the law of the land or a higher moral calling.

“Greek theater can be intimidating to go see, but here we have the most accessible and alive translation of its kind being carried by a

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