The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney, Sophocles

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone



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Sep 24, 2012 - This year's festival features a modernized take on Sophocles' Antigone, drawing parallels to modern political happenings like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movements, as well as the importance of social media to those causes. Antigone buries Polynices in secret, is discovered and condemned by Creon. Both make clear, if coded, reference to contemporary Irish political life. May 4, 2014 - Anderson and his librettist, playwright Frank McGuinness, have compressed Sophocles' three Theban plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone) into a compactly dramatic two hour opera. From the first moment to the last, director Marcela Lorca keeps Burial at Thebes taut and compelling. His version of Philoctetes by Sophocles. Now king again, Creon – uncle to Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices – decrees that Eteocles will be buried with full honors but Polyneices will not, because he was a traitor who attacked his own city. Oct 3, 2011 - The foundation of this searing production is Seamus Heaney's lucid and probing adaptation of Sophocles's Antigone. Nov 8, 2013 - The action is this: brothers Eteocles and Polyneices have done battle for the kingship of Thebes, and both have been killed, Eteocles within the city walls and Polyneices, attacking from without. Three plays means a lot of characters, and ENO fielded an impressively strong cast with Roland Wood He decrees that Polynices, who attacked Thebes, not be given a burial. The Sophoclean Yet if Sophocles punishes this man who dares defy the rule of god, in Tom Littler's production this is muffled by an attempt to portray two version of a leader without clarifying an internal conflict. Jul 3, 2013 - Seamus Heaney brings his skill of translation to the ancient Greek tragedy, "Antigone," first written by dramatist Sophocles in the 4th century BC. Oct 4, 2013 - Announcing Pacific University's fall theatre production, The Burial at Thebes, an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, written by Seamus Heaney and directed by guest artist Gemma Whelan. Jun 25, 2011 - Antigone has undergone many successful adaptations in the UK- from Royal Shakespeare Company through to Declan Donnelan- as well as translation- from Seamus Heaney (The Burial at Thebes) through to Timberlake Wertenbaker.





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