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Director Nina Sawyer '01 and her company were blessed by remarkably gorgeous weather for their outdoor production of French existentialist Jean Anouilh's Antigone, and by and large the cast rises to the elements' implicit challenge in this production, one that starts slowly but gains momentum as it marches toward its foretold conclusion. Indeed, Anouilh's 1942 Antigone is not about suspense, but about the inevitability of playing roles. For Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, this means performing burial rites for her slain brother Polynices, who has been declared a traitor of the state and therefore forbidden those rites. For Antigone...
Additionally, elitist though it may be to say, performing the play in English instead of French automatically robs some of the truest life of Anouilh's words. Sawyer has not done a tremendous amount to reinvigorate the script and turn her production from a fine staged reading into an evocative drama. This Antigone is rich in ideas but never comes around to engaging the senses...
Last week, in a final push, the mayor dusted off Gone With the Wind, Lastinger second-grader Stephen Sumner ripped through Tom Sawyer and aced 19 out of 20 questions, and Rotarians challenged Kiwanians to a read-off. At Lastinger, Kaitlyn Pritchard, 7, nailed the test on a book called Arthur's Eyes. The 1/2 point gave her 20 for the year, and she couldn't wait to tell her parents. "I'm going to surprise them tonight," she said...
directed by Nina Sawyer...