Word: creon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bury her just-deceased brother, Polynices, although a city law forbids it. Antigone had already buried her parents and her other brother, Eteokles, who had followed Oedipus to the throne. But because Polynices raised an army and attacked his own homeland and brother, the new king of the city, Creon refuses to allow her to bury the traitor. Creon, their uncle, wants the dead Polynices torn apart by wild dogs...
Schall, who founded the group in October and is directing "Antigone," will also play the lead role of King Creon...
...play is a Greek tragedy about Oedipus's daughter Antigone, who resolves to bury her slain brother, Polyneices, in defiance of her uncle, King Creon of Thebes, who had ordered that the slain man remain unburied...
...could be By Lust Possessed. Caldwell's gestures are endlessly provocative. Her hands urgently stroke her upper thighs; when she slips to the floor, she writhes orgiastically. True, she has been driven half mad since her royal lover Jason (Mitchell Ryan) cast her off in favor of King Creon's daughter. But she seems to miss past days of glory less than past nights in Jason...
Director Robert Whitehead, who produced Medea in 1947, has not fired up other key actors. Paul Sparer's Creon is more like a pompous chairman of the board than a Corinthian king, and Ryan's Jason is a callow marital climber rather than the hero who brought home the Golden Fleece. The Grecian temple designed by Ben Edwards has a brooding, darksome majesty. A pity so much of this production lacks...