Word: anouilh
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Ring Around the Moon, which Fry adapted from the French of Jean Anouilh...
...Antigone" was written by the celebrated French author Jean Anouilh during the recent war. It was first presented under the German occupation of Paris in 1943. The Nazis permitted it to be produced, not realizing the play's strong anti-dictatorial significance...
...Jean Anouilh's version of "Antigone" will be the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall presentation, the club announced last night. The play will go on the boards in Sanders Theater from December 13 thru 17. Robert C. Seaver '50, president of the HDC, has been chosen director...
...outs for the modern adaptation of the Sophocles classic start tomorrow. Anouilh's play was first presented in Paris under the Nazi occupation in 1941, and according to the HDC was intended as anti-totalitarian propaganda...
...Antigone of Anouilh, unswayed by religion, unfond of her brother, and in love with life, can only be accounted a fanatical idealist-a character into whom Katharine Cornell finds it almost impossible to breathe life. On the other hand, Anouilh's Creon is at once the least Sophoclean and the most successful person in the play. He is an astute, cynical worldling whose decree is merely a sop to the crowd and whose desire is to save his niece's life; and he is played with chilling elegance by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. If Antigone has ethics...