You're listening to the partially examined life. This is our performance of Suffolk Lee's

Antigone, the translation by Dudley Fitz and Robert Fitzgerald. This is Mark Linton Meyer

calling in from Madison, Wisconsin, and I will be playing the chorus leader, otherwise

known as Chora Ghost, which I will pretend is his name, even though he's just an elder

in the town. This is Seth Paschini, I'm in Austin, Texas, and I will be playing a

century. As well as as well as I would say the regular podcasters are the chorus, but

we're not going to try to have them talk in unison because that would be strange.

This is Wes Awen in Boston, Massachusetts, and I'm going to be a messenger. This is Dylan

Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin, and I'm playing Toreseus. This is Lucy Lawless in Auckland, New

Zealand, and I'm playing Antigone. There's Paul Provenza, and I am playing Creeon.

And this is Alison Claire, and I am playing this many.

Hi, John Castro, and I'm playing Hymon. So we're going to call him Hymon. We're not

going to call him Heyman or Heaman. Is that what I'm just going by this spelling in

the script here, buddy? So I like Heaman. I'd actually prefer to play Shira if that's

okay. So some ground rules, it's okay to giggle. Yeah, that's pretty much it. So if something's

actually funny. All right, before you start the performance, a little business. If you're

not familiar with the partially examined life, we are a philosophy podcast. We normally

discuss classic works and not perform them. And though a couple of the folks on here are

professional actors, the rest of us are rank amateurs. This is a cold read, unrehearsed,

so just adjust your expectations accordingly. The play is about an hour long, and then

we've got about 15 minutes of discussion afterwards with the cast about Greek drama,

and the translation we used and some other things. And then we're going to wrap up with

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