Watch on National Theatre at Home. The new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him and honours her brother. Creon takes action against her, risking the wrath of the gods. Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker feature in. The third of the Theban plays, Antigone is a perfect tragedy: everyone behaves in the right way, but with fatal results. It's a true tragedy of irreconcilables. Creon, the ruler of Thebes, has decided that Polynices, who has died fighting his own brother in a civil war, has no right to be buried. Instead, his body must be left on the field of.
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The new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him and honours her brother. Creon takes action against her, risking the wrath of the gods. Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker feature in this thrilling contemporary staging of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay. Share your videos with friends, family, and the world In fatal thrall. Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker as Antigone in the National theatre's 2012 production of Antigone. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian This film offers a brief introduction to Aristotle's theory of tragedy from Edith Hall, before introducing the play Antigone by Sophocles. Polly Findlay spea.
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Review: Antigone, National Theatre. "When things must be, they will be". Though the prospect of a different kind of Greek tragedy is one that is dominating our headlines at the moment, the ancient Greek kind remain an enduring presence in our theatres. Sophocles' Antigone is the latest to re-emerge at the National Theatre with director. Step into the National Theatre's Archive and discover the stories behind Polly Findlay's production of Antigone, adapted by Don Taylor and starring Christoph. Cast. Jodie Whittaker Antigone. Annabel Scholey Ismene. Paul Bentall Chorus. Martin Chamberlain Chorus. Jason Cheater Chorus. Stravos Demetraki Chorus. Paul Dodds Chorus. Craige Els Chorus. Review: Antigone. Ryan Ahern June 7, 2012 Off West End Reviews Theatre 1149 views. Thebes has been ravaged by civil war and King Creon has ruled that no one is to bury Antigone's brother, the 'traitor' Polynices. Driven by her overriding familial love and the belief that her uncle's edict is immoral, unjust and against the laws of the.
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Antigone, National Theatre, NT, May 2012. Posted on 30 May 2012. The story behind this play is that before he died, Oedipus cursed his sons, and they ended up killing one another in a battle for Thebes. The city is now ruled by Creon, brother to Oedipus's mother/wife Jocasta. Antigone and Ismene, all images NT/ Johan Persson. Short at around 90 minutes, 'Antigone' manages to encapsulate the essential conflicts between politics, power, the rights of the individual and common humanity. Though the play itself is powerfully insightful and still resonates, this production is hardly one of the National's greats, largely because it fails to ignite our emotions.
Jodie Whittaker's Antigone is no bright-eyed martyr - simply a dogged, determined young woman who believes nothing is more important than the debt we owe to family and the dead. It is a. In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles.
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Bristol Community College's Theatre Program will host a production of Antigone, from Thursday, Feb. 15 to Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, at 7 p.m., in the Studio Theatre (room H128), at the Jackson Arts Center, on the Bristol Fall River Campus, 777 Elsbree Street. This will be the first production directed by a Bristol Theatre Program Student. Court Theatre has revealed the cast for 'Antigone,' a timely masterwork by Sophocles. Directed by Gabrielle Randle-Bent and featuring Nicholas Rudall's translation, this production concludes Court.
