Antigone | Critical Review of Anouilh's Work
In this review of a 1956 revival of Anouilh’s play, the author examines the political nature of Antigone while offering a mixed appraisal of the work.
I never read a French review of Anouilh’s Antigone
but report has it that when it was done in Paris
during the Occupation it was considered a covert
piece of propaganda urging defiance of the Nazi
government. Yet the Nazi authorities permitted its
production. It seems to have meant different things
to different people.
In the hush of its present revival by a new
theatre organization—Mazda Productions—I believe
I discern how this case of mistaken identity
could occur. Anouilh’s Antigone defies Creon not
because her...
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