...Hansgünther Heyme Copyright © THEATER 1980 1980 Antigone in Calcutta: A Director's Notes Hansgunther Heyme Why art in hell, or more precisely, in Calcutta, where social A directing workshop is held concurrently...

...Mac Wellman © 2002 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2002 Antigone, Heracles, Creon, and Ismene as depicted on a Greek vase, mid- fourth century bce Mac Wellman Antigone Persons of the play All parts are played by the three fates, also three facts, on their way...

..., and seemswholly concerned with edy extant, an attempt to cram into the burial of Eteocles and the marriage a single play all the legends of the of Antigone. Cadmean line, and is certainly among the most profuse in its characters; its To say that the story of Menoeceus is rel• structure...

...Mac Wellman © 2002 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2002 Antigone brought in front of Creon by two guards c. 380 bce. A Play for a Broken World Mac Wellman, Interviewed by Carrie Hughes carrie hughes In an interview with you when remember liking very much. We read...

... - theater's declaration of independence - that at a cer• tain level of cultural/historical investigation, theater loses its in- Cover of program book for the Frankfurt Antigone. 59...

..., Robert 117 Zwelinzima, whose book is in proper order. In The Island, John and Winston prepare Antigone for a concert at the prison where they are confined. John is called to the warden's office and informed that an appeal has...

... slaying of Oedipus‘ sons to Antigone’s lament, Creon’s funeral order, and Antigone’s resolve to defy the state and bury Polyneices. The immediate problems were many. How would we deal with the text? How...

... magazine Plays and Players. Michael Feingold: To what extent is the Living Theatre's Antigone valid, or even useful, as a dramatization of a political situation, intended to evoke an activist response? Eric Bentley: Well, I thought not very. I think you have...

..., Clytemnestra could entail further manipulation of male gynophobia. uiz. her major action is a form of inaction. Antigone is the great seeks revenge It is difficult to surmise or attempt to reconstruct the im- drama of refusal and denial. with an ax. Greek pact 5th century B.C. production...

... so unique about his artistic palette. The central question that has framed the Trajal Harrell’s majority of Harrell’s practice highlights a fascinating merge of two geographically dis- Antigone Sr./Twenty parate yet similar universes: “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the Looks...

...• sense. They were not inventing a new language, as Brook's actors classics, but not so many Greek plays. did in Orghast; theirs was not a completely fantastical language. I saw the three Antigones staged at Berlin's Theater Festival last year. The set designs were beautiful...

... . . Faithfully , Julian Beck Krefeld, Germany February 18, 1967 Dear Saul, . . . We opened Antigone last night to wild local acclaim. The important...

..." which relies on the juxtaposition of con• nant concept of a production. While some of these metaphors are tradictions for its effect. When Brecht produced Antigone, based on integrally related to the text, others tend to simplify the complexity Holderin's translation of Sophocles, he emphasized...

...-cape, the of the production: the separation of messenger a brown sash, Antigone and gesture from word. The greater the Ismene simple gowns and white scarves, distance between word and gesture, Eteocles and Polyneices red sashes and the less is the illusion of reality. ("I n red shawl-capes. I am...

... of wander- Alison Yerxa’s set design emphasized the ness,” Sam Butler, the grinning guitarist who ing and degradation, arriving with his production’s simple presentational intention. had been following Creon around the stage, daughter Antigone at the sacred grove of In addition to the Plexiglas...

... the role of the absent 8 a theater of documentation director onstage, as Belgian actor Peter Seynaeve (who was also the acting coach for Rehearsal for Milo the children in Familie) did in Five Easy Pieces. Building on the autoethnographic tech- Rau s Antigone in the niques of recollection plays...

... of the basic ways in which we carry out our lives. Hegel’s model dramatic work for examining this contradiction is Antigone, in which family rights clash with societal rights. The opposing willpower of Antigone and Creon effectively waters down these different sets of rights, robbing each one of its...

... Aeschylus'Agamemnon , Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Antigone, scholarly tradition, dominated by philological and linguistic and Euripides' Bacchae and Cyclops. The Greek and French plays approaches to the study of ancient theater (understood essentially are in his own translations. as a collection of texts...

....” I read Antigone. I didn’t understand just how very drawn I was to these passages about exile, death, disaster and home. antigone: Ismene? Let me see your face: my own, only sister, can you see because we are the survivors...