Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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ENTREATY—Teiresias (Dennis Rasmussen) pleads with Creon (Ray Williams). CAST await to be “made up.” COSTUME assistants iron the garments for opening night. DECISION—Antigone faces the elders of Thebes. 22

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The Tragic Figure Antigone The Story THE CURSE on the house of Labdacus not only brings about the double death of Eteocles and Polynices but also involves their two sisters Ismene and Antigone. Antigone insists upon giving her brother Poly¬ nices (who had been named a traitor to the city of Thebes) the last human right, the rite of burial. By this deed Antigone knowingly risks her life, for she is violating the ancient custom of denying burial to enemies and traitors as well as the decree of Creon, her uncle, who has just succeeded to the throne. Comment IT WOULD BE difficult to decide on the most tragic of the Greek plays; however the Theban plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Anti¬ gone) surely would be among the top contenders. Although ANTIGONE was written first, it is the last play in the cycle. Dramatis Personae ANTIGONE.Donna Steinmann ISMENE.Jean Hawkins Leader of the Ghorus.R. Michael West Chorus.Sue Torngren, Bob Venkus, Tom Cathcart, Bev Mendelson, Donna Latham, and Louise Mitchell CREON.Raymond Williams A guard.Michail W. Buse HAEMON.William Stephens TEIRESIAS.Dennis S. Rasmussen Boy.Don Hawkins Messenger.Peter Hardie EURYDICE.Kathy Rice Attendants.Charles Thomas, Danny Jones, Loren Wilson, Charles Horgan ANTIGONE bids farewell to the citizens of Thebes in a dramatic moment. LEAD — Donna Steinmann as Antigone.

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ACTORS receive instructions from Director George Anastasiow, following dress rehearsal. MICKEY Meredith, in charge of make¬ up. Photography Ashley Harkness ISMENE (Jean Hawkins) sister of Antigone. WARDROBE—Ann Polland, in charge of costumes.