Word: anouilh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatist writes one play, a director produces another, the actors perform a third, and the audience views yet a different one. Jean Anouilh's The Cavern is a play-within-a-play which blends these four perspectives into...
Until the climactic last half hour, when the actors rescue the plot from the author and make up their own lines, the numerous scenes follow no understandable pattern. But the brutal early scenes have given the characters meaning, and the brief powerful finish generates emotion in the audience. What Anouilh has done is to create a loose play and still jolt the spectators. In short, he plays with the audience. The author-actor states early in the play that "I have always thought we should make the audience and critics rehearse, too." The "Cavern" may refer to the whole theater...
MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis, Minn. Shoemakers' Holiday, by Thomas Dekker, Anouilh's farce, Thieves' Carnival, and a new play, Harpers Ferry, by Barrie Stavis will be in repertory at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater until Oct. 27. The House of Atreus, adapted by John Lewin from Aeschylus' Oresteia, will be added to the playbill on July 21; Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Visit debuts on Sept...
...columns, all but one of which are badly cracked and chipped. Surrounding them, therefore, is a network of metal scaffolding, parts of which later fold in to Antigone's prison cell. This and Tharon Musser's fluid lighting allow the show to proceed for two hours straight through, as Anouilh intended, without intermission...
...Anouilh's Antigone is one of the most profound discussions of this crucial matter ever penned. I urge you to avail yourself of this transcendent play in its current transcendent production