USC president joins cast and director in discussion of the play’s timeless themes.
As part of a special Nov. 19 Visions and Voices event, 160 students traveled to a performance of the classic play Antigone by A Noise Within, a Pasadena-based theater company.
The students saw more than a play, though: Afterward, USC President C. L. Max Nikias joined the cast and director Robertson Dean to discuss some of the play’s timeless themes and take questions from students.
The group watched Jean Anouilh’s 1944 interpretation of Sophocles’ classic tragedy, a variation that makes use of a narrative device that dares audience members to choose between their personal values and those of the world in which they find themselves.
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