Photo Flash: First Look at Hannah Donovan, Jason W. Wong and Madeline H. D. Brown in ANTIGONE

Cutting Ball Theater continues its 16th season, devoted to the theme of "Injustice," with a new translation of Sophocles' ANTIGONE. Associate Artistic Director Paige Rogers, who helmed Cutting Ball's productions of Tontlawald and Mud, directs this new translation from Daniel Sullivan using music and movement techniques inspired by Poland's famed Teatr ZAR. Check out a first look at the production below!

Featuring Madeline H.D. Brown, Hannah Donovan, Emma Crane Jaster, Wiley Naman Strasser, Elissa Beth Stebbins, Jason W. Wong, Tim Green, and Paul Loper, ANTIGONE plays February 19 through March 22 (Press opening: February 22) at the Cutting Ball Theater in residence at EXIT on Taylor (277 Taylor Street) in San Francisco. For tickets ($10-50) and more information, the public may visitcuttingball.com or call 415-525-1205.

Two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war die fighting each other for the throne. Kreon, the new ruler of Thebes, has decided that one brother, Eteocles, will be honored, buried and sanctified by holy rites, and the other, Polyneices, will lie unburied on the battlefield. In this seminal Greek play by Sophocles, Antigone defies the royal edict sent out by her uncle, Kreon, not to bury the body of her brother, deemed a traitor. Exploring the struggle between the individual and the state, this elegant tragedy about tyrannical power and civil disobedience is considered to be Sophocles' masterpiece and has become synonymous with political protest. Written In 441 BC at a time of national fervor, ANTIGONE is as pressing for modern audiences as it was for those in the ancient world. ANTIGONE appeared as a staged reading as part of Cutting Ball's Hidden Classics Reading Series in 2013.

Photo Credit: J.C. Myers