The Truth about A

In his interpretation of Antigone Seamus Heaney says Nobody can be sure they are always right. Maureen OShaughnessys The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles Brecht Ted Hughes Anne Carson and most particularly Euripides. Set in contemporary Sydney among a fictional underworld family The Truth about A not only considers the issue of whether to obey the law or your conscience but delves into the nature of the creative impulse and the eternal bonds and chasms between generations. Antigone daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta provokes the fury of the crime-overlord Creon with her profound sense of honour family and duty. But this spirit of defiance raises questions infinitely more complex than the brute facts of power and order engendering a meditation on justice ethics and personal judgement.