Additional Listening, Learning, and Viewing
Check out this curated list of videos, podcasts, and playlists to dig deeper into Antigone, Thebes, and the world of Court’s production.
Listen
- This Spotify playlist, curated by Sound Designer and Court Theatre Teaching Artist Willow James, includes inspiration and mood music informing Court’s production of Antigone.
- The Poets (Danielle Davis and Cage Sebastian Pierre) have created a playlist of music that informed the creation and development of their odes. Give it a listen!
- For those who want to brush up on their Greco-Roman myths, this podcast retells the “most entertaining and enraging stories” from Greek and Roman mythology in a casual, contemporary, and occasionally sarcastic way.
- The urgency of a burial ritual takes center stage in Antigone. This podcast explores rituals and rites across centuries and civilizations.
Learn
- Puzzling over Tiresias’s bird-based fortune-telling? Read up on the ancient art of augury here.
Watch
- Curious about the wars Sophocles lived through? These videos give a brief overview of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.
- This World History Encyclopedia video walks through the lives and roles of women in Ancient Greece.