Winter Play: The Diviners - January 19-21, 2012 at 7:30 pm, Edina Performing Arts Center
Burial at Thebes - January 27-28, 2012 at 7:30 pm, Edina Performing Arts Center
Burial at Thebes
January 27-28, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Edina Performing Arts Center
Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Competition
The play tells how Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, gives her brother, the traitor Polyneices, a form of ritual burial (she scatters his corpse with dust) against the explicit instructions of her uncle, King Creon, and the advice of her sister, Ismene, even though she knows that the consequence will be her death. She thereby initiates a grimly tragic process: not only does Antigone die, hanging herself when Creon, in retribution, buries her alive in a cave, but Creon's son Haemon, who is betrothed to Antigone, also kills himself out of grief, as does Creon's wife, Eurydice. Creon, eventually convinced by the prophet Tiresias and the play's chorus of elders, does relent - too late - but Antigone is intransigent, despite a striking moment of self-doubt before her incarceration.
We Still Need Parent Volunteers for the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Competition
Saturday, February 4th, Edina High School Thespians are hosting the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Competition. This day we need many volunteers from room monitors to concessionaires. We need you! Mark your calendar now to join us for the entire day, February 4th.
To volunteer please use our online signup.
EHS has been awarded 11 spotlights for Urinetown. More are to come with technical awards yet to be decided.
For the 6th year in a row, we have been awarded a coveted “Outstanding Over All Production” along with many other awards. Check out the full announcement here!