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Synopsis:Jean Anouilh Eurydice
Antigone (Anouilh/Bray). Translated by Barbara Bray. Read more + Close Antigone (Anouilh/Bray) by Jean Anouilh Barbara Bray Get the script Get estimate & availability Use this tool for cost estimates based on your specific needs. Jean Anouilh was born in Bordeaux on June 23, 1910. After completing his early schooling, Anouilh studied law. Antigone, and although Anouilh carefully fol- one, comments on them, and describes the fate. Lowed the basic plot, he used the mythological of those doomed to die that day. Thus the audi- story to comment on France during the German ence knows immediately what is to happen. Jean Anouilh translated by Lewis Galantiere.
'Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing' Peter Brook
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Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas, which exploit fantasy, tragic passion, scenic poetry and cosmic leaps in time and space. Antigone, his best-known play, was performed in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Paris and provoked fierce controversy. In defying the tyrant Creon and going to her death, Antigone conveyed to Anouilh's compatriots a covert message of heroic resistance; but the author's characterisaation of Creon also seemed to exonerate Marshal Petain and his fellow collaborators. More ambivalent than his ancient model, Sophocles, Anouilh uses Greek myth to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of our times.
Commentary and notes by Ted Freeman.
From the Inside Flap:The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's Antigone was seen by the French as theatre of the resistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of authority.
Includes an interview with translator Christopher Nixon and director Brendon Fox.
Also includes an interview with Ned Chaillet, a playwright, radio producer and director for the BBC. Chaillet is the former Deputy Drama Critic for the Times of London and the London theatre critic for the Wall Street Journal-Europe. He spoke with us about Antigone in the context of World War Two, the differences bewtween the original myth of Sophocles and the Anouilh version, and Anouilh's influence on later playwrights.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Jordan Bridges as Haemon and Guard
Dominic Fumusa as Guard
Francis Guinan as Creon
John Hansen as Guard and Messenger
Alan Mandell as Chorus
Antigone Jean Anouilh Monologues
Elizabeth Marvel as Antigone
Alley Mills as Nanny
Mandy Siegfried as Ismene
Directed by Brendon Fox. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
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