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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040804
Author:Ng, David

ANTIGONE

By Sophocles

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Gender-bending Sophocles at a timely political moment

With its depiction of a wartime ruler whose unyielding ideology gradually alienates the home front, ultimately leading to his ruin, Sophocles' Antigone practically begs to be staged as a rallying cry against the current presidential incumbent. Of course, this classic Greektragedy, first performed in 442 BC, is no strangertotopical updating: Jean Anouilh's 1942 version was written in protest of the Nazi occupation of Franee, while A.R. Curneyreconceived the play in the late '80s ...

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