The play follows the plot of Sophocles' Antigone - Contains one of the monologues for Year 12 Theatre Studies, 2001.

Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas, which exploit fantasy, tragic passion, scenic poetry and cosmic leaps in time ...

Winner of the Antoinette Perry Award for Best Play of the Season, Anouilh's monumental work—introduced in this edition by the acclaimed writer and critic Andre Aciman—draws from historical events in the Norman conquest of England to ...

Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe.

The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone defies the law, sealing her fate.

THE STORY: According to Atkinson (Times), a play of many moods...wistfully romantic, satirical, fantastic.

A translation of Jean Anouilh's drama Antigone from the series 'Dramâu'r Byd'.

A play on Joan of Arc.

Portrays the conflict of loyalties to church and state as they influenced the lives of two powerful men in English history.

Length: 4 acts.