Erin B. Mee is Assistant Professor and Acting Chair in the Department of Theater at Swarthmore College.

Helene Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College.

• 1: Erin B. Mee and Helene P. Foley: Introduction: Mobilizing Antigone


• I. Antigone in Antiquity


• 2: Edith Hall: Antigone and the Internationalization of Theatre in Antiquity


• II. An Ancient Greek Play?


• 3: Moira Fradinger: An Argentine Tradition


• 4: Fiona Macintosh: Irish Antigone and Burying the Dead


• III. Cultural Freedom


• 5: Erin B. Mee: The Fight for Regional Autonomy Through Regional Culture: Antigone in Manipur, NE India


• 6: Moira Fradinger: Danbala's Daughter: Félix Morisseau-Leroy's Antigòn


• 7: Dongshin Chang: Antigone Inculturated in Tainan of Southern Taiwan


• 8: Cobina Gillitt: How the Fish Swims in Dirty Water: Antigone in Indonesia


• IV. Antigone and Human Rights


• 9: Serap Erincin: Performing Rebellion: Eurydice's Cry in Turkey


• 10: Dave Hunsaker: `You should have listened instead of mocking the spirits': Yup'ik Antigone in the Arctic


• 11: Marc Robinson: Declaring and Rethinking Solidarity: Antigone in Cracow


• V. Individual vs. Collective


• 12: Mae J. Smethurst: The Ku Na'uka Theatre Company's Antigone in Tokyo


• 13: Gonda Van Steen: 'Suspect always, like the truth': The Antigone of Aris Alexandrou on the Urban Stage of Thessaloniki, 2003


• VI. Antigone as Dissident


• 14: Mark Seamon: Antigone for Young Audiences: A Protest Parable


• 15: Dongshin Chang: Democracy at War: Antigone: Insurgency in Toronto


• VII. Cultural Memory


• 16: Edward Ziter: No Grave in the Earth: Antigone's Emigration and Arab Circulations


• 17: Martina Treu: Never Too Late: Antigone in a German WWII Cemetery in the Italian Appennines Mountains


• 18: Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson: Voice from the Black Box: Sylvain Bemba's Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone


• VIII. Sophocles vs. Anouilh


• 19: Nehad Selaiha: Antigone in Egypt


• 20: Helene P. Foley: Millennial Antigone in the US: Anouilh Revisited


• 21: Lorna Hardwick: Antigone's Journey : From Athens to Edinburgh, via Paris and Tbilisi


• 22: Hana Worthen: `Humanism', Scenography, Ideology: Antigone at the Finnish National Theatre, 1968

Sophocles' Antigone has been staged all over the world, and many of these productions have reconceived and remade the play to address local issues and concerns. This collection of essays explores the play's reception in numerous countries, as diverse as The Congo and Australia, Argentina and Japan.