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Antigone, presented by the girls of St. Catherine's by Madhuri Shekar

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  • Nick Malakhow:
    3 Feb. 2020
    “ As an English teacher who taught ANTIGONE for years and a playwright, I truly admired this play. Each character is a uniquely rendered individual. The circumstances of the school mimic the stakes and weight of tragedy itself. The action from start to end feels inevitable but not stale--it poignantly and tragically comments on the larger social forces standing in the way of girls and women. In a contemporary twist on tragic structure, the end feels hopeful--what happens in the play is a travesty and tragedy, but the final moment foreshadows the idea that change can come through resistance. ”
  • Grant MacDermott:
    16 Jan. 2020
    “ An excellent play that is fiercely and boldly written. A wonderfully constructed play that weaves the myth of Antigone with a production of Antigone with notes of Antigone in the relationship of the main characters. Brilliantly done. A sign of an excellent writer is even at the end I found myself feeling for each character, even the one who commit huge wrongs. ”
  • Emma Goldman-Sherman:
    29 Jun. 2019
    “ This is the best play!!!!! BRILLIANT! It is not only Antigone but Antigone (the play within this play) inspires the young women characters and they in turn inspire me and hopefully everyone else who ever sees this play! WONDERFULLY WRITTEN! Each character is so well drawn, and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. KUDOS! ”
  • Paul Donnelly:
    3 Apr. 2019
    “ This play has all the vivid intensity and hurtling sense of inevitability of the Greek tragedy being rehearsed. The key difference is that these young women ultimately stand up to the charismatic monster who might otherwise destroy at least one of them. This is a work of exhilarating craft with an exhilaratingly affirming, if hard-won, outcome. ”
  • Ellen Koivisto:
    29 Dec. 2018
    “ This is an Antigone for today, as we gradually realize we're seeing the Antigone plot line happening to the cast putting on Antigone at St. Catherine's Catholic all-girls school. What is it like to be young and faced with horrible choices that can change your life forever and devastate people you love? Just as the cast of this Antigone discovers during rehearsals, it's terrible but also sometimes has to be done, no matter the outcome. This is a great play, contemporary and timeless. Highly, highly recommended! ”
  • Gina Femia:
    5 Jul. 2018
    “ I LOOOVED this play. Truly couldn't stop reading. Great adaptation of Antigone, powerful roles for teenagers, truly something special. ”
  • Zach Czaia:
    22 Apr. 2018
    “ Terrific play. Explores the nature of betrayal and cover-up through a lens we don't always consider: teenage young women. Hard to read but harder to put down. Would love to see this staged somewhere near me.

    And the "play within a play" works perfectly: Antigone as the background text for this was an inspired choice. ”
  • Caro Asercion:
    18 Nov. 2017
    “ In a cultural moment when more and more women are speaking out against sexual assault, Madhuri Shekar’s “Antigone, presented by the girls of St. Catherine's” strikes uncomfortably close to home. Though the content is heavy at times, playwright Shekar takes care to center the play around the girls as protagonists, always keeping the relationships between these young women at the forefront. More than a mere adaptation of a Greek classic, “Antigone, presented…” is a call to arms—a mirror held up to an active, immediate present. ”

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