Word: creon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chorus of three Corinthian women has happily not been recruited from the ranks of the subway money-changers, as seemed to be the case in the earlier production. Gone is their folksy quality perhaps, but the dialogue has benefited. On the debit side, there are two actors playing Creon and Aegeus who either have dental difficulties or misapplied crepe beards. Much of what they say is completely muffled...
...sadly inadequate portrayals of most of the leading characters, especially that of Oedipus, which Henry P. Robbins exaggerates and destroys, despite good diction, with a stream of sculpturesque poses, haling deliveries, and indecorous tiltings of the head. Only William Whitman, a last-minute substitute in the role of Creon, approached the adequate. As Directress Mary Manning Howe said not quite inclusively enough in her program notes, "Purists and scholars will, no doubt, find much to shudder at in our production...
When after five weeks of rehearsal, the two plays are presented at Brattle Hall, Henry P. Robbins '48 will appear as Oedipus and E. Edmond Ayres 8th, '48, will take the role of Creon...
...written by Sophocles, the play tells the story of Oedipus' daughter Antigone, whose two brothers kill each other in a quarrel over who shall succeed their dead father. When Creon, Antigone's uncle, takes the throne, he issues his edict that one of the brothers must lie unburied, as a lesson that the law must be enforced. Protesting this indignity, Antigone twice attempts to bury the body. Her efforts fail, she is caught and condemned to death, finally commits suicide...
...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...