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Antigone was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Atelier on February 6, 1944, during the Nazi occupation.Produced under Nazi censorship, the play is purposefully ambiguous with regard to the rejection of authority (represented by Antigone) and the acceptance of it (represented by Creon).
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French: [ʒɑ̃ anuj]; [1] 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government.
Antigone in Front of the Dead Polynices by Nikiforos Lytras, National Gallery, Athens, Greece (1865) In her own namesake play, Antigone attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices. Oedipus's sons, Eteocles and Polynices, had shared rule jointly until they quarreled, and Eteocles expelled his brother. In Sophocles' account ...
Antigone is an opera (tragédie musicale) in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. Honegger composed the opera between 1924 and 1927. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel. [1] [2]
Capping off a year of experimentation, Savannah Stage Co. ends 2023 season with an all-teen cast in a post-apocalyptic telling of classic Greek tragedy, 'Antigone.'
An English-language modernist group founded in 1914 that poetry based on description rather than theme, and on the motto, "the natural object is always the adequate symbol" [94] Ezra Pound, H.D., Richard Aldington: Dada: Touted by its proponents as anti-art, the Dada avant-garde focused on going against artistic norms and conventions [95]
This was the first in Theodorakis' trilogy of lyrical tragedies, the others being Electra and Antigone. Chamber Made, Medea (1993), composed by Gordon Kerry, with text by Justin Macdonnell, after Seneca. Oscar Strasnoy, Midea (2) (2000), based on Irina Possamai's libretto, premiered at Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto, Italy. It won the 2000 ...
The Mangiones boast a wealth of cousins, aunts and uncles, who have spread well beyond Little Italy. But the family has remained largely silent following Mr Mangione's arrest, only releasing a ...