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Anouilh Plays: Bk. 1: Antigone, Leocardia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, Poor Bitos by Jean Anouilh
Category: Performing Arts | Series: World Classics
A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a re ...Show more
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone which was first performed in Athens in the ...Show more
Antigone - Methuen Drama by Anouilh, Jean
Category: Education
"Antigone" was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. Based on Sophocles an ...Show more
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