In Sophocles’ Antigone, written around 442 BCE, the punishment meted out to the play’s iconic title character—and the tragedy that follows—flow from Antigone’s determination to give her brother Polynices a proper burial. Marc J. Franklin Susannah Perkins plays Antigone. In Ziegler’s imagining, Antigone becomes pregnant before her wedding, transforming the play into a crucible of debates around pregnancy, abortion, choice, and birth. Antigone isn’t simply right and Creon isn’t simply wrong—they’re both acting from convictions that cannot coexist.”Marc J. Franklin Celia Keenan-Bolger is the Chorus. How do you govern chaos without becoming a tyrant?”Marc J. Franklin The cast of Antigone (This Play I Read in High School).