Antigone

Jean Anouilh’s landmark adaptation of Antigone, premiering in Occupied France in 1944, traces the last, tragic day of the eponymous princess’ life. Lifted into the modern era, Antigone and Creon fight against the backdrop of a politically-ruptured nation desperate to end wars of its own making, each struggling to understand the human cost of their actions, whether on Ismene, Antigone’s sister Haemon, her fiancé, Eurydice, the queen, or the overworked guards, tired of bending to authority. With Galantière’s hour-long translation, Anouilh recontextualizes this epic tale for the human scale, refracting all facets of why the gap between what we believe in and what can be done seems so vast.