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Antigone at the Barbican was a 2015 filmed-for-TV version of a production at the Barbican directed by Ivo van Hove; the translation was by Anne Carson and the film starred Juliette Binoche as Antigone and Patrick O'Kane as Kreon. Other TV adaptations of Antigone have starred Irene Worth (1949) and Dorothy Tutin (1959), both broadcast by the BBC.
The book ends with a series of poignant questions from the poem “Death” by Harold Pinter, the answers to which are testimonies by victims and family members of the disappeared. The last question posed in the text is, “ Will you join me in taking up the body? ”, a somber question that both Antígona González and the Greek play Antigone ...
Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus King of Thebes, Greece, learns that her two brothers Polyneices and Eteocles have killed each other fighting on different sides of a war. Creon, Antigone's uncle and newly appointed King of Thebes, buries Eteocles, who fought on the Theban side of the war, hailing him as a great hero. He refuses to bury ...
Men in the Off Hours won the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001, with the judges calling it an "ambitious collection" in which Carson "continues to redefine what a book of poetry can be". [5] The book also made the shortlist for the 2000 T. S. Eliot Prize (Carson's second consecutive nomination), [6] and was a poetry finalist for both the ...
Antigone, also known as The Antigone of Sophocles, is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of Hölderlin's translation of Sophocles' tragedy. It was first performed at the Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland in 1948, with Brecht's second wife Helene Weigel , in the lead role. [ 1 ]
The story of Antigone has been a popular subject for books, plays, and other works, including: Antigone, one of the three extant Theban plays by Sophocles (497 BC – 406 BC), the most famous adaptation; Antigone, a play by Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC) which is now lost except for some fragments; Antigone (1631), [9] a play by Thomas May
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Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ἀντιγόνη) is a play by the Attic dramatist Euripides, which is now lost except for a number of fragments. According to Aristophanes of Byzantium , the plot was similar to that of Sophocles ' play Antigone , with three differences.