Antigone
Jean Anouilh
Oct 2005 · L.A. Theatre Works · Narrated by Elizabeth Marvel, Francis Guinan, and Full Cast
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The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate.
Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's Antigone was seen by the French as theatre of the resistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of authority.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
- Jordan Bridges as Haemon and Guard
- Dominic Fumusa as Guard
- Francis Guinan as Creon
- John Hansen as Guard and Messenger
- Alan Mandell as Chorus
- Elizabeth Marvel as Antigone
- Alley Mills as Nanny
- Mandy Siegfried as Ismene
Directed by Brendon Fox. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
(P)2005 L.A. Theatre Works. All Rights Reserved.
About the author
Jean Anouilh was born on June 23, 1910, in France. Anouilh studied law as a teenager and worked briefly in advertising. He soon became aware of his strong attraction to the theatre and became one of France's foremost playwrights and screenwriters. Anouilh's works are noted for their theatrical conventions. His plays, many of which are bleak dramas, feature characters facing highly moral dilemmas. He uses such conventions as flashbacks, role reversals, and play-within-a-play to achieve dramatic effects. Anouilh received a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for his play Waltz of the Toreadors and a Tony award for Thieves Carnival. Other well-known works include Antigone, Eurydice and the film Pattes Blanches. Anouilh suffered a heart attack and died in 1987.
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