Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage

by: Mee, E.B. Foley, H.P.

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 Sophocles' Antigone has been staged all over the world, and many of these productions have reconceived and remade the play to address local issues and concerns. This collection of essays explores the play's reception in numerous countries, as diverse as The Congo and Australia, Argentina and Japan.

1. Introduction: Mobilizing Antigone, Erin B. Mee & Helene P. Foley
I. Antigone in Antiquity
2. Antigone and the Internationalization of Theatre in Antiquity, Edith Hall
II. An Ancient Greek Play?
3. An Argentine Tradition, Moira Fradinger
4. Irish Antigone and Burying the Dead, Fiona Macintosh
III. Cultural Freedom
5. The Fight for Regional Autonomy Through Regional Culture: Antigone in Manipur, NE India, Erin B. Mee
6. Danbala's Daughter: Felix Morisseau-Leroy's Antigon, Moira Fradinger
7. Antigone Inculturated in Tainan of Southern Taiwan, Dongshin Chang
8. How the Fish Swims in Dirty Water: Antigone in Indonesia, Cobina Gillitt
IV. Antigone and Human Rights
9. Performing Rebellion: Eurydice's Cry in Turkey, Serap Erincin
10. `You should have listened instead of mocking the spirits': Yup'ik Antigone in the Arctic, Dave Hunsaker
11. Declaring and Rethinking Solidarity: Antigone in Cracow, Marc Robinson
V. Individual vs. Collective
12. The Ku Na'uka Theatre Company's Antigone in Tokyo, Mae J. Smethurst
13. 'Suspect always, like the truth': The Antigone of Aris Alexandrou on the Urban Stage of Thessaloniki, 2003, Gonda Van Steen
VI. Antigone as Dissident
14. Antigone for Young Audiences: A Protest Parable, Mark Seamon
15. Democracy at War: Antigone: Insurgency in Toronto, Dongshin Chang
VII. Cultural Memory
16. No Grave in the Earth: Antigone's Emigration and Arab Circulations, Edward Ziter
17. Never Too Late: Antigone in a German WWII Cemetery in the Italian Appennines Mountains, Martina Treu
18. Voice from the Black Box: Sylvain Bemba's Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone, Barbara Goff & Michael Simpson
VIII. Sophocles vs. Anouilh
19. Antigone in Egypt, Nehad Selaiha
20. Millennial Antigone in the US: Anouilh Revisited, Helene P. Foley
21. Antigone's Journey : From Athens to Edinburgh, via Paris and Tbilisi, Lorna Hardwick
22. `Humanism', Scenography, Ideology: Antigone at the Finnish National Theatre, 1968, Hana Worthen

Series:
Classical presences

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage

by: Mee, E.B. Foley, H.P.

• ISBN-13: 9780199586196 / 978-0-19-958619-6
• ISBN-03: 0199586195 / 0-19-958619-5
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011

Price: 110,00 EURO

1 copy in stock