Antigone
by Jean Anouilh trans Lewis Galantiere

Antigone Book Cover
Antigone Cover

Synopsis

Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe.

The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time.

Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone which was first performed in Athens in the 5th century BC, its theme was nevertheless topical.

For in Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial and her reiterated "No!" to the dictator Creon, the French audience saw its own resistance to the German occupation.

The Germans allowed the play to be performed presumably because they found Creon's arguments for dictatorship so convincing.

The play is regularly performed and studied around the world.

"Anouilh is a poet, but not a poet of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing" Peter Brook

Performance

Cast

A medium cast size of 12 total roles, 4 female and 8 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Methuen
Year Published
1960
ISBN 10
041330860X
ISBN 13
9780413308603
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
80 pages
Language
English
Print
Antigone is a French teenage play written by and published by Methuen in 1960. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780413308603 and an ISBN-10 of 041330860X.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle.

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