Your body of Polynices, Antigone’s brother, has been ordered to stay unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone’s faithfulness to her dead sibling and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi profession, Anouilh’s Antigone was seen by the French as theater of the resistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of power.

Includes an interview with translator Christopher Nixon and movie director Brendon Fox.

about Antigone

Also contains an interview with Ned Chaillet, a playwright, radio maker and director for the BBC. Chaillet is the former Deputy Theatre Critic for the days of London as well as the London theatre critic for the Wall Road Journal-Europe. He spoke around about Antigone in the framework of World Battle Two, the differences bewtween the original myth of Sophocles and the Anouilh version, and Anouilh’s influence on later playwrights.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast overall performance featuring:

Jordan Bridges seeing that Haemon and Safeguard

Dominic Fumusa as Safeguard

Francis Guinan as Creon

John Hansen mainly because Guard and Messenger

Alan Mandell as Chorus

Elizabeth Marvel mainly because Antigone

Alley Mills mainly because Nanny

Mandy Siegfried as Ismene

Aimed by Brendon Fox. Documented before a live audience on the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.