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Two Against Thebes

Sam Hurwitt

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African-American Shakespeare Company and the Cutting Ball Theater each reinvent Antigone. My review is on KQED Arts.

Jasmine Strange, Brooklyn Fields and Tavia Percia in African-American Shakespeare Company’s Xtigone. Photo by Lance Huntley.
Jasmine Strange, Brooklyn Fields and Tavia Percia in African-American Shakespeare Company’s Xtigone. Photo by Lance Huntley.
Paul Loper, Madeline H.D. Brown, Wiley Naman Strasser and Jason W. Wong in Cutting Ball Theater’s Antigone. Photo by Chase Ramsey.
Paul Loper, Madeline H.D. Brown, Wiley Naman Strasser and Jason W. Wong in Cutting Ball Theater’s Antigone. Photo by Chase Ramsey.

Review: Two Against Thebes:  Contrasting Visions of Sophocles’ Classic in ‘Antigone,’ ‘Xtigone’

Xtigone
Through March 8
African-American Shakespeare Company
Buriel Clay Theatre
African-American Art & Culture Complex
762 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA
www.african-americanshakes.org

Antigone
Through March 29
Cutting Ball Theater
Exit on Taylor
277 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA
www.cuttingball.com

Xtigone: Show #13 of 2015, attended February 14.

Antigone: Show #16 of 2015, attended February 22.

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