Review: Antigone
Jean Anouilh’s Antigone is less widely known than Sophocles’ Antigone. But Anouilh’s “adaptation” of the classic Greek tragedy is an important work in itself. Written by a Frenchman during Nazi occupation of France, Anouilh’s Antigone is in some ways more dynamic and accessible than Sophocles’, and it has become a landmark of protest theatre. It’s Anouilh’s …