Word: creon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with most of the others. Arthur Friedman performed impeccably as Creon, assuredly and pompously reasoning his way out of the bursts of his King's anger and into the respect of the chorus. Robert Egan as Tiresias, the blind soothsayer, also allowed me to float by on the prose, mouthing what he could not see with such taste and skill that Yeats himself taunted the King Joanne Hamlin, who played Jocasta the Queen, adopted the precise style a bit too faithfully, speaking moderately, to be sure, but not quite forcefully enough for the part...
...guards have become city cops, and Etiocles and Polyneices no longer represent vanquished good and triumphing evil; both were "a pair of blackguards."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...
...part of Antigone is a much less sympathetic one: Anouilh has denied her any political heroism; and she must remain tense, unyielding, and yet believable in the face of Creon's eloquence and practical hopes. Maggie Ziskind's triumph is that she remains consistently believable. Antigone's loneliness, her anguish, her despertion--all these are capturd by Miss Ziskind's performance...
...last night. Long 9/8 measures contrast with abrupt triplets to overshadow with a barbaric grandeur the occasional lapses of style. Forbes even took the chorus too far in this direction, for after a rather stale opening the melodic line became jerky; but this flaw disappeared when the chorus greeted Creon and Tiresias with excellent dynamic control and superb forcefulness...