Antigone represents a missed opportunity for post-war modern Greek theatre. The mimesis of a tragedy by Aris Alexandrou, which constitutes a first dramatic manipulation of the issues that will subsequently lead to his soul-stirring novel, The Box, is a play virtually unknown both to the wider public and to professionals active in the world of literature and drama. The N.T.N.G. is particularly pleased and honoured to present this forgotten yet major piece of modern Greek dramaturgy for the first time, written in 1951 when Alexandrou was in exile at Ai-Stratis. At a time when Brecht was attempting to create his own 'Antigone' or Jean Anouilh's play by the same title was being presented in Athens by the Greek Art Theatre - Karolos Koun, Alexandrou gave Sophocles' heroine a dual identity, placing her in the first act on the mountains of Greece during the occupation and in the luckless years of the Civil War in the second. An ardent supporter of the view that 'the poet always takes the side of Antigone and never Creon', Alexandrou portrays on stage the question of heroic sacrifice during anti-heroic times, thus presenting us with a dismal image of humanity in crisis, when man is easily wasted away on struggles given in his name.