Antigone Play Analysis

Red Cat Productions, a local theater company, is proud to announce our inaugural season. Our company is small, with only a handful of actors; however, we believe this to be our strength, as our goal is to provide the community with select performances that focus on minimalistic character studies in an intimate setting. Our creative interest lies in the spaces between the social and the psychological: we have chosen each play based on how social issues affect the individual, thus providing human insight on these very issues which often become abstracted when portrayed simply as news. For our inaugural season, we have selected four plays inspired by previous works.
Production Selections Another Antigone, by the playwright A. R. Gurney and licensed by Dramatists Play Services, tells the story of Henry Harper, a university professor, and Judy Miller, his student who wishes to rewrite the classical play Antigone as a
The full-length play involves four principal actors, with three male actors and one female actor. The story focuses on university student Michael Moorehead, a poetry student obsessed with the character Heathcliff from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Michael is mentored by his professor, Evan Beckman, who secretly fancies him. Micheal himself, however, becomes enamored with a young art student, Sharon Glass. Sharon Glass's mentor, George Brandon, is Evan Beckman's longtime lover. Thus, the narrative explores the complexity of relationships as they unfold between private and public spaces. The story itself soon resembles the overarching plot of Wuthering Heights, although rather than a modern adaptation, The Delusion of Angels presents a more psychologically astute character study of conflicts borne from unrequited emotions. The play aligns with the mission of Red Cat Productions due to its examination of LGBTQ