Titled “Antigone According to Bertolt Brecht and Two Stories,” the book also includes two stories by German authors Alfred Döblin and Rolf Hochhuth, all translated by Mahmoud Haddadi, Mehr reported.
How powerful is Sophocles’ story of war, betrayal and familial love that his “Antigone” is reborn time and again onstage? In both its original text and in highly successful adaptations by Bertolt ...
The tagline for the Kansas University English Alternative Theatre’s production of “Antigone” is “now more than ever,” and it’s an apt description of Sophocles’ immortal tragedy. For this particular ...
The first is a French adaptation of the Greek tragedy written by Jean Anouilh, and the second is a German retelling by Bertolt Brecht. First performed in Nazi-occupied Paris, Anouilh placed Antigone ...