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    Antigone In Texas
    Antigone In Texas
    Antigone In Texas
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    Antigone In Texas

    By Jack R. Stanley

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    The family of Longoria is cursed because of the father’s unknowing incest with his mother. For the sake of peace the father divides his kingdom in two giving each brother half – one is given Mexico and the other Texas. Two remaining sisters from the incestuous marriage, Antigone and Ismene go to Texas with their brother Pasqual.

    The brother who rules Mexico, General Erasmo, makes war on Texas whose citizens want only freedom and peace. He also makes war on his own sisters and brother, Pasqual, now a colonel in General Creon’s Texas army. In the final battle at the Rio Grande, the brothers meet and kill each other but Texas wins both the battle and the war.

    Following the bitter fighting, General Creon declares martial law and decrees that only those who fought for Texas are to be buried with all honors. Any who fought for Mexico are to be left on the battlefield to rot and be eaten by the buzzards and coyotes.

    Now that both brothers are dead, Antigone feels duty bound to give her beaten and dishonored brother, Erasmo, the proper funeral rights because she once loved him and he is still her brother. Sister Ismene refuses to help and so Antigone alone does what she feels is right. But Antigone is captured performing the burial rights and faces death for her actions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJack R. Stanley
    Release dateFeb 2, 2013
    ISBN9781301897735
    Antigone In Texas
    Author

    Jack R. Stanley

    Jack R. Stanley is an award winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam he earned the Bronze Star. Yet he says, “When you’re in a firefight and everybody else on both side have guns while you have a camera --- you get to change your pants a lot.” After his military service he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also received two of Michigan1s most prestigious creative writing awards, The Hopwood Award, one for a one-act play and the second for a novel. Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley’s first academic position was TV Area Head at The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Radio-TV-Film. He later moved to deep-south Texas and the Lower Rio Grande Valley for a challenging position with The University of Texas-Pan American. Here he taught Theatre-TV-Film for 30 years in the Department of Communication serving as Department Chair at U.T.P.A. for 11 years. He did take one year out to work for The University of Alaska Anchorage as a visiting professor. Back in Texas, Stanley directed for stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student staffed, cast, and crewed feature films, writing most of the original screenplays. Just a few of his credits are available on IMDB.com. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle where he writes his fiction and runs his blog, www.TheFictionWritersNotebook.com . His webpage is www.jackrstanley.com.

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      Antigone In Texas - Jack R. Stanley

      ANTIGONE IN TEXAS

      A Tragedy in Two Acts

      by

      Jack R. Stanley

      Based on

      ANTIGONE

      By

      Sophocles

      © All Rights Reserved

      ANTIGONE IN TEXAS

      Text copyright © 2013 by Jack R. Stanley

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved

      This play may not be copied or reproduced, in whole or in part, by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in his/her review.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any persons, events or localities is purely coincidental and beyond the intent of the author and publisher.

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      iStock illustration by gimbat

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      jacks@utpa.edu

      www.thefictionwritersnotebook.com

      www.jackrstanley.com

      ANTIGONE IN TEXAS

      By

      Jack R. Stanley

      ACT 1

      SCENE 1

      At Rise:

      (Brownsville, Texas, Circa 1836, is an adobe built border town in the Spanish/Mexican tradition. It is a town of less than 200 inhabitants, mostly Hispanic, but also Anglo. Directly behind the town square and fountain, is a hotel with a front door opening onto the square. Two roads lead off stage; one between the hotel and the Longoria hacienda, left, and the other, lined with other shops and stores is on the other side of the hotel and a cantina, right, which also faces the square and opens onto it. Stage left is the large Longoria hacienda. Its main gate, with a smaller door as a part of the wooden gate, opens onto the square. ENTER ANTIGONE, leading ISMENE through the door in the gate onto the square at sunrise. Both are barefoot and wearing the simple shifts they have slept in.)

      ISMENE

      (Shielding her eyes against the rising sun)

      What is it? What's so important you had to wake me up?

      ANTIGONE

      Quiet, sister! Listen.

      ISMENE

      (Pause)

      Listen to what?

      ANTIGONE

      What do you hear, Ismene?

      ISMENE

      The fountain and the birds. What should I hear?

      ANTIGONE

      Cannons -- rifles.

      ISMENE

      (Realizing and suddenly awake)

      Antigone, the battle is over?

      ANTIGONE

      Maybe the war is over?

      ISMENE

      (Stepping forward and listening again)

      But who won and who lost?

      ANTIGONE

      Our brothers.

      ISMENE

      Then one has won.

      ANTIGONE

      But the other has been defeated. And we, sister -- our brother and us -- no matter who won -- we lost?

      ISMENE

      Don't say that.

      ANTIGONE

      I don't know how, yet, but I feel it.

      ISMENE

      What do you mean?

      ANTIGONE

      It's part of the curse. There's no suffering, no shame, no ruin in this life that won't fall on us.

      ISMENE

      No. All of that is behind us. Our father gave up his throne, his power, and ripped out his own eyes before he wandered off.

      ANTIGONE

      Yes, and Mother hanged herself with a rope made from her royal gown.

      ISMENE

      No, no. It was all their sin, their curse -- not ours.

      ANTIGONE

      Incest is our blood, Ismene. It’s a blasphemy. Everyone who carries the family name of Oedipus Maximilian Longoria is branded. It's our curse.

      ISMENE

      Don't say that. We've crossed the river -- we left all of that behind us.

      ANTIGONE

      Is that what you think? We can never escape it. When Father married, he became the emperor of Mexico. But he had the blood of his father on his hands

      ISMENE

      He did not know it!

      ANTIGONE

      It doesn't matter. When he bedded his own mother and fathered our brothers and us -- he created a living profanity. And he passed his sins to us.

      ISMENE

      (Covering her ears)

      I won't listen to this.

      ANTIGONE

      (Grabbing Ismene by the arms)

      Then hear this. We are under martial law.

      ISMENE

      (Carefully removing her hands from her ears)

      I don't know what that means?

      ANTIGONE

      It means whoever has won this battle, this war, now controls us.

      ISMENE

      So? Have we ever been really free?

      ANTIGONE

      Ismene, it means more dishonors and pain for everyone in the house of Longoria.

      ISMENE

      Antigone, you're just being dramatic again.

      ANTIGONE

      I am not!

      ISMENE

      I’ve heard nothing -- certainly nothing bad for our family.

      ANTIGONE

      Are you even interested in hearing news about either of our brothers?

      ISMENE

      What do you know about that?

      ANTIGONE

      Nothing.

      ISMENE

      There, you see. You're making misery before it exists.

      ANTIGONE

      Ismene, I have never felt anything like this -- not since Mother died.

      ISMENE

      I don't feel anything, and I won't listen to you anymore.

      (Turns to go)

      ANTIGONE

      (Calling after Ismene)

      I think our brothers are dead!

      (Ismene stops in her tracks but does not turn to face Antigone)

      Pasqual and Erasmo -- both are gone.

      ISMENE

      (Turns to her sister)

      I won't believe that until I hear it from someone who knows.

      ANTIGONE

      No one wants me to be wrong any more than I do.

      (She starts to cry)

      ISMENE

      (Going to Antigone and putting her arms around her.)

      Come back inside, Antigone.

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