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Tickets for Sunday night's show are now available to purchase by calling the Haar Theatre box office after 2pm: 780 497 4470.
When a visionary prophet visits the King of Thebes he reveals secrets so awful they will destroy three generations of the royal family. Secrets that will bring plague and war to the city of Thebes, and terror and death to its people. Thebans is a single journey from Sophocles' plays Oedipus The King to Antigone, bridging the gap with segments from Euripides' Phoenician Women and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes.
If the Greeks' plays speak powerfully to our times, it’s because they strike the chord of the universal. To quote playwright/adaptor Liz Lochhead, 'you have to stress: at any time in history these plays would be contemporary. I don't think of the Thebans as being different from us. I don't think of them as people set in olden days.
They’re incredible stories. There's no subtext, they are subtext. People speak out their internal dilemmas, and that's incredibly powerful. As a dramatist it gives you a sense of how bloodless plays are now, and how we should really get things big, and write about things that matter.'
Note: Children 5 and under are not permitted in the theatre.
