Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage

by Mee, Erin B.; Foley, Helene P.

• ISBN13: 9780199586196
• ISBN10: 0199586195
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stageis the first book to analyse what happens to Sophocles' play as it is adapted and (re)produced around the world, and the first to focus specifically onAntigonein performance. The essays, by an international gathering of noted scholars from a wide range of disciplines, highlight the numerous ways in which social, political, historical, and cultural contexts transform the material, how artists and audiences in diverse societies including Argentina, The Congo, Finland, Haiti, India, Japan, and the United States interact with it, and the variety of issues it has been used to address.

Author Biography

Erin B. Mee is Assistant Professor and Acting Chair in the Department of Theater at Swarthmore College.

Helene Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Figures	p. xi
List of Contributors	p. xvi
Mobilizing Antigone	p. 1
Antigone in Antiquity
Antigone and the Internationalization of Theatre in Antiquity	p. 51
An Ancient Greek Play?
An Argentine Tradition	p. 67
Irish Antigone and Burying the Dead	p. 90
Cultural and Political Freedom
The Fight for Regional Autonomy through Regional Culture: Antigone in Manipur, North-East India	p. 107
Danbala's Daughter: Felix Morisseau-Leroy's Antigon an Kreyol	p. 127
Antigone Interculturated in Tainan of Southern Taiwan	p. 147
How the Fish Swims in Dirty Water: Antigone in Indonesia	p. 156
Antigone and Human Rights
Performing Rebellion: Eurydice's Cry in Turkey	p. 171
To Mock the Spirits: Yup'ik Antigone in the Arctic	p. 184
Declaring and Rethinking Solidarity: Antigone in Cracow	p. 201
Individual Versus Collective
Are We All Creons and Ismenes?: Antigone in Japan	p. 221
The Antigone of Aris Alexandrou on the Urban Stage in Thessaloniki	p. 235
Antigone as Dissident
Antigone for Young (American) Audiences: A Protest Parable	p. 255
Democracy at War: Antigone: Insurgency in Toronto	p. 267
Cultural Memory
No Grave in the Earth: Antigone's Emigration and Arab Circulations	p. 289
Never Too Late: Antigone in a German Second World War Cemetery on the Italian Apennines	p. 307
Voice from the Black Box: Sylvain Bemba's Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone	p. 324
Sophocles Versus Anouilh
Antigone in Egypt	p. 343
Millennial Antigone in the USA: Anouilh Revisited	p. 373
Antigone's Journey: From Athens to Edinburgh, via Paris and Tbilisi	p. 392
'Humanism', Scenography, Ideology: Antigone at the Finnish National Theatre, 1968	p. 407
Appendix	p. 415
Bibliography	p. 428
Index	p. 451
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