 Event |
Antigone
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| Venue |
Merlyn Theatre @ CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC |
| First Date |
21 August 2015 |
| Last Date |
13 September 2015 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
A moral fable about the struggle between individual conscience and the laws made by an all-powerful state. For this version, the translator Jane Montgomery Griffiths gives us a brutal modern dictatorship where the ruler, played by Jane herself, is a well-groomed and ruthless woman. The story line is the same, except that the updated script bristles with phrases from the Australian political lexicon, including 'off-shore detention centre'.
The production is bleak, dangerous and brutal, and ends with the tortured, dead Antigone suspended from a hook and the other cast members splashing through |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Adaptation
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Resources |
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
Greece
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
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| Event Identifier |
155059 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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