In The Burial at Thebes, a luminous and poetic version of Sophocles' Antigone, a young woman defies the law of the king with violent and tragic consequences.Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes explores the dangers of pride and absolute belief regardless of personal, political and moral consequences especially in the eternal struggle between the individual and the state, between conscience and society and between divine law and human law.The Burial at Thebes received its world premi re at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in March 2004.The Abbey Theatre Playscript Series marks the Abbey's continued commitment to the promotion and development of new Irish writing.