'Antigone in Ferguson'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 20, 2018

Bryan Doerries, director and translator of Antigone and artistic director of Theater of War, NYC community activist Marcelle Davies Lashley and Latricia Allen, a St. Louis police lieutenant, talk about the new play "Antigone in Ferguson," which gives voice to police violence through the lens of Sophocles' Greek tragedy. 

 

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