Word: anouilh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jean Anouilh...
...Jean Anouilh's World War II version of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone, takes the stage this weekend at the Adams House Kronauer Space this weekend and next. While the plot is the same as Sophocles' ancient play, Anouillh's version involves everything from Nazis to occupied France in a play involving a cast of seven...
Written by Jean Anouilh in 1936. Traveller Without Luggage is about a young man who loses his memory in World War I The play opens in the mid-1920s when an attempt is made to reunite the young man with his family, from which Anouilh creates a compelling, but extremely problematic drama...
...literary critic George Neveaux wrote, "The entire theatre of an era came out of the womb of that play, Six Characters." Pirandello's revolution in form and content profoundly influenced the works of Sartre, Anouilh, Genet, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, and many other playwrights. Pirandello's dramaturgy contributed significantly to this new form of theatre--his acceptance of the stage for what it was, his knowledge that it did not need to be a true-to-life copy of the real thing. He saw the stage as a place of magic and illusion...
...ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government finds one more form of political expression tonight as Jean Anouilh's Antigone starts its four...