Across the continent, artists are using theater to bring the modern economic Greek drama to life | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

At the beginning of this year, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras compared the contemporary fate of cash-strapped Greece to Sophocles’s tragedy Antigone, written in Athens over 2,400 years ago. In that play, Antigone defies her uncle Creon’s edict to leave her renegade brother Polyneices’s corpse unburied; she says she is following divine justice, not arbitrary human…