In one retelling, this character stops at the sight of a man’s corpse in the market square on the way to her wedding to Allan Jones. While “confronting the audience as [himself] and not” this character, a man declares, “I go now to my living death.” Another retelling recasts this character as Odale and a relative as Leicho in a commentary on Kwame Nkrumah’s one-party state. An “African” version of this character subtitles a play by Femi Osofisan. A man argues with his friend over wearing a wig and fake breasts to act as this character before learning his friend’s prison sentence was reduced to three months. A 1973 play ends with a performance of this character’s trial and begins with two men digging sand to fill their wheelbarrows in a Robben Island-inspired prison. For 10 points, John helps his cellmate Winston rehearse his portrayal of what Sophocles character in Athol Fugard’s The Island? ■END■
ANSWER: Antigone [accept Tegonni: An African Antigone; prompt on Tegonni; prompt on Odale until read] (The play in the third sentence is Kamau Brathwaite’s Odale’s Choice.)
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