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...Tragedy," says the Chorus of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, "is clean"--but the play itself belies this. For Anouilh, writing in 1944, the filth of politics and administration seemed more real than the antiseptic heroics of Sophoclean tragedy. Like the Frenchmen of the day his Thebans are all preoccupied with authority and sordid disorder, a preoccupation intensified in the English language version by Lewis Galantiere's consistent use of rough American slang...
Little in the play, in fact, is particularly clean: palace guards have become city cops, and Etiocles and Polyneices no longer represent vanquished good and triumphing evil; both were "a pair of blackguards." But in Anouilh's world it is the blackguards, or at least the politically committed, who ultimately survive. And, as the play develops, the survival of Creon--who capitulates to corruption so that he can "introduce a little order into this absurd kingdom"--becomes increasingly more interesting than the deaths of Antigone and Haemon...
While As You Like It continues nightly except Monday until July 10, rehearsals will be underway for the second production, Jean Anouilh's Antigone, which opens July 12. For its third presentation, the Harvard Summer Players have invited Joseph Everingham, Director of Drama at MIT, to direct George Bernard Shaw's Missal lance. It will open July...
...season will open with Shakespeare's As You Like It; Anouilh's Antigone will follow on July 12. Both these shows will be directed by Hancock. Shaw's Misalliance will open July 26, and will be staged by Joseph D. Everingham, M.I.T.'s director of drama. The final production, to begin Aug. 10, will be a rarely seen Brecht play...
Shakespeare's As You Like it will be the opening production, followed by Jean Anouilh's Antigone, which will run from July 12 to July 22. Both plays will be directed by John Hancock...