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Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. One of the masterpieces of the modern French stage.

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"Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." Director, Peter Brook

Antigone

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean Anouilh, Lewis Galantiere

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      Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 1 September 1960
      ISBN-13 9780413308603
      978-0413308603
      ISBN-10 041330860X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. One of the masterpieces of the modern French stage.

      Trade Review
      "Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." Director, Peter Brook

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