Fall 2025 Production
Antigone
by Sophocles
Translated by Anne Carson
Directed by Robert Quillen Camp
Written by Sophocles between 440 and 442 BC, Antigone presents a clash between the power of the state and the imperatives of filial duty. Declared a traitor to Thebes in the aftermath of the Theban civil war, Antigone’s dead brother Polynices has been left unburied outside the city gates. In attempting to honor her brother with a proper burial, Antigone defies her uncle Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, resulting in a cascade of tragic consequences. Renowned poet and classicist Anne Carson renders the power of Sophocles’s language in a stark and thrilling translation that makes the questions that animate the play immediate and compellingly relevant.
Oct. 23-25 | 7:30 p.m. | Murchison Lane Auditorium (Babcock Fine Arts Center)
Oct. 26 | 2 p.m. | Murchison Lane Auditorium (Babcock Fine Arts Center)
Admission
$10 General Admission | $5 Senior/Student
FREE for Sweet Briar Students, Faculty, & Staff
Spring 2026 Production
Alfred Jarry’s
Ubu Mort-Vivant
Directed by Robert Quillen Camp
Ubu Mort-Vivant (“Ubu the Living Dead”) is a recently discovered contested addition to the Ubu canon of plays composed by the French proto-absurdist playwright Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). Written in 1937, thirty years after its author’s death, Ubu Mort-Vivant finds deposed autocrat Pa Ubu using highly unconventional (i.e. supernatural) means to return to power after a complete defeat at the hands of his enemies. Presciently forecasting the global return of strongman rule in the twenty-first century, Ubu Mort-Vivant is an avant-garde riot of obscenity, puppets, and deadly serious ridiculousness. For audiences 17+ only.
Feb. 26-28 | 7:30 p.m. | Murchison Lane Auditorium (Babcock Fine Arts Center)
March 1 | 2 p.m. | Murchison Lane Auditorium (Babcock Fine Arts Center)
Admission
$10 General Admission | $5 Senior/Student
FREE for Sweet Briar Students, Faculty, & Staff
Tickets will go on sale in January 2026