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The UT Department of Theatre and Dance in the College of Arts and Letters is presenting a pre-recorded performance of the play “Antigone,” which can be watched online starting Thursday, March 25, at 8 p.m. through Sunday, March 28, at 10 p.m. at ut.edu/theatre/antigone.

“Antigone” was written by Sophocles, adapted and translated by Robert Campbell and augmented by the play’s director, Gary Luter, professor of speech, theatre and dance. “Antigone is a young woman who knows right from wrong, good from bad and truth from lies. Such persons have always served as saviors of humankind … She stands to this day as a role model for others — as we will discover when we attend to the ideas in this play, one of the greatest plays ever written,” says Luter.

Performing the role of Antigone is Mizan Selas, a first-year theatre major and French minor. This is her third show at UT, following last semester’s modern-day “Vaudeville” and online “Alice in Wonderland.”

The “Antigone” production team created a video recording studio in an empty room at the Falk Theatre. The cast performed the play as a series of solo takes to the camera and then spent many hours editing them and creating virtual backgrounds. To follow COVID-19 safety protocols, the students were always alone in the studio recording their own performances against a chromo-key drop.

For more information about the performance, contact Luter at gluter@ut.edu or (813) 258-7283.