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Antigone (Oberon Modern Plays)

Antigone (Oberon Modern Plays)

by Sophokles (Author), translated by Anne Carson (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction. Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work, Ivo van Hove first enthralled London audiences with his ground-breaking Roman Tragediesseen at the Barbican in 2009. Drawing on his 'ability to break open texts calcified by tradition' (Guardian), the director now turns to a classic Greek masterpiece.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 54
 Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 12 Mar 2015
ISBN 10: 1783198109
ISBN 13: 9781783198108

Media Reviews
'A marvellous new translation by Anne Carson that crackles with canny colloquialism and insight' Arts Desk
Author Bio
Anne Carson's translation of Sophokles' Antigone receives its world premiere at Grand Theatre de Luxembourg, in collaboration with the Barbican in London, starring Juliette Binoche and directed by Ivo van Hove; the production will tour throughout Europe and the United States. Anne is currently adapting The Bakkhai for the Almeida. Classic Stage Company has produced three of Carson's translations: Aeschylus' Agamemnon; Sophocles' Electra; and An Oresteia (from Euripides' Orestes), in repertory. Works include: Autobiography of Red; Red Doc>; Antigonick; Nox; If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (translation); The Beauty of the Husband; Men in the Off Hours; Economy of the Unlost; Plainwater: Essays and Poetry; Glass, Irony and God; Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay; Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera; Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (translation). Carson is a MacArthur Fellow; she has received the Lannan Prize, the T.S Eliot Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize (twice-awarded), and was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany.