Antigone February 13, 2009

Based on Jean Anouilh’s contemporary classic, the play presents the ancient Sophoclean conflict between King Creon and his niece, Antigone — between the perennially warring values of expediency and idealism.

Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of Sophocles’ original, tragic play was interpreted to represent the struggle of the French Resistance movement against the forces of the Vichy government during the height of the Nazi occupation.

A picture of a totalitarian state and the struggle between the individual and the establishment, it tells the story of Oedipus’ daughter Antigone, who after her father’s death and subsequent civil war defies her uncle, Creon, the King who has issued an edict that Polynices, one of her dead brothers is left to rot and ‘any person who attempts to give himself be put to death’.

Antigone attempts to bury Polynices and is arrested. In the style of the Greek tragedy, the action results in a series of discussions and deaths, as the characters try to deal with life, death, happiness, love, honour and duty.

Writer : Jean Anouilh.
Director : Satyadev Dubey
Cast : Naseeruddin Shah, Akash Khurana, Benjamin Gilani, Ratna Pathak Shah & others.
Tickets are available at Rs. 150/- and Rs. 100/- per head.

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