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In 2012, the Royal National Theatre adapted Antigone to modern times. Directed by Polly Findlay, [27] the production transformed the dead Polynices into a terrorist threat and Antigone into a "dangerous subversive." [28] Roy Williams's 2014 adaptation of Antigone for the Pilot Theatre relocates the setting to contemporary street culture. [29]
Actress Katharine Cornell produced and starred in a 1946 production at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. [3] Sir Cedric Hardwicke played the role of King Creon. Also performing were Bertha Belmore , Wesley Addy , Ruth Matteson , George Mathews , and Oliver Cliff , and Marlon Brando (as the Messenger), Michael Higgins (The Third Guard).
The play was first produced at the Abbey Theatre in April 2004 [1] and later adapted as an opera, which premiered at the Globe Theatre in London in 2008, [2] with music by Dominique Le Gendre and libretto by Heaney. It includes a note from the writer comparing Creon with the foreign policies of the Bush administration. [3]
In 2017, I saw the young Chicago actress Aeriel Williams in “Black Pearl” at the Black Ensemble Theatre, a show about Josephine Baker. I remember thinking she was the kind of phenomenal new ...
Critically acclaimed productions include Sophocles' Antigone on the Olivier Stage at the National Theatre in 2011, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2015. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Findlay's production of David Eldridge's new play Beginning opened at the National Theatre in October 2017 and transferred to the ...
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 ...
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.
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