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== International versions: Texts, translations and adaptations==
 
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Among the many stage plays based on the '''Antigone''' myth are:
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Among the many stage plays based on the '''Antigone''' myth arethe following. (Plays on which there are entries in [[ESAT]] are written in blue. '''To see details of South African productions such plays, click on the name to go to the entry.'''):
  
 
''[[Antigone (by Sophocles)]]''
 
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''[[Tegonni, an African Antigone]]'' (by Femi Osofisan)
 
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== South African versions ==
 
== South African versions ==

Revision as of 05:29, 1 February 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 arethe following. (Plays on which there are entries in ESAT are written in blue. To see details of South African productions such plays, click on the name to go to the entry.):

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

These are original plays (or significant adaptations) created and/or written by a South African playwright and/or director.


#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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