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== South African versions ==
 
== South African versions ==
  
The [[Company of Four]] presented Jean Anouilh's Antigone in the [[Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts]]' [[Arts Hall]], Port Elizabeth, from June 16 - 21, 1952.
 
 
'''Produced by:''' [[Will Jamieson]]. '''Lighting:''' [[H Alyn Lane]],  '''Stage Directors :''' [[R Parker]] and [[W Bruhuber]].
 
 
Starring [[Maurice Weightman]], [[Molly Kauffman]], [[Phyllis Taylor]], [[Joyce Scotcher]], [[Rollo Johnson]], [[Will Jamieson]], [[Rupert Bellairs]], [[Ronald Walland]], [[Robin Parker]], [[Douglas Sibbald]], [[John Traylor]] and [[B Sismey]].
 
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[[''Antigone'' (by Wendy Watson and Kenlynn Sutherland)|''#Antigone'' (by Wendy Watson and Kenlynn Sutherland)]]
 
[[''Antigone'' (by Wendy Watson and Kenlynn Sutherland)|''#Antigone'' (by Wendy Watson and Kenlynn Sutherland)]]

Revision as of 17:45, 31 January 2018

In Greek mythology, Antigone [1] is the daughter of Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta. Over the years the myth has been the subject of many books, plays, operas and other works. The most famous play text is the Greek version by Sophocles, but there have been many others.

International versions: Texts, translations and adaptations

Among the many stage plays based on the Antigone myth are:

Antigone (by Sophocles)

Antigone (by Euripides)[2]

Antigone (by Jean Cocteau)

Antigone (by Jean Anouilh)

Antigona Furiosa (by Griselda Gambaro)

Antigona (by Salvador Espriu)

Antigone (by José Watanabe)

Antigone (by Mac Wellman)

Antígona Vélez (by Leopoldo Marechal)

''Antigone'' (by Bertolt Brecht)

Antigone (by Antonio D'Alfonso)

Antigone (by Don Taylor)

Antigone (by Eamon Flack)

Tegonni, an African Antigone (by Femi Osofisan)

South African versions

#Antigone (by Wendy Watson and Kenlynn Sutherland)

Sources

"Antigone" theatre programme, 1952.

"Antigone" in Wikipedia[3]

E. F. Taiwo. 2014. "Deconstructing the 'Fourth Wall': Metatheatricality in Plautus' Miles Gloriosus and Osofisan's Tegonni" in Canadian Social Science, 10(5), 146-152.[4]

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