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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20050923
Author:Preston, Rohan

Byline: Rohan Preston; Staff Writer

TODAY: In Sophocles' "Antigone," South African playwright Athol Fugard saw people resisting the yoke of apartheid (in his play "The Island") while Jean Anouilh staged it in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942 as part of the resistance. Now Sophocles' tragedy about human injustice and divine law is getting the Theatre de la Jeune Lune treatment. The play, about Antigone's desire to give her brother the proper burial that is forbidden by her uncle, Theban king Creon, is being staged by Jeune Lune co-artistic director Robert Rosen with fellow artistic ...

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