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Five Plays, Vol. 1: Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette
The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays—the finest English-language anthology of his works —crackles with both his sharp wit and his icy cynicism In Antigone, his preeminent play and exemplar of his themes and style, he creates a disturbing world in which fate may be no more than a game of role-playing. Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, R omeo and Jeannette are the other plays included in this edition. .
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Antigone: Methuen Student Edition
Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas, which exploit fantasy, tragic passion, scenic poetry and cosmic leaps in time and space. Antigone, his best-known play, was performed in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Paris and provoked fierce controversy. In defying the tyrant Creon and going to her death, Antigone conveyed to Anouilh's compatriots a covert message of heroic resistance; but the author's characterization of Creon also seemed to exonerate Marshall Ptain and his fellow collaborators. More ambivalent than his ancient model, Sophocles, Anouilh uses Greek myth to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of our time. "Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing."-Peter Brook .
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Anouilh Plays: Two: The Rehearsal, Becket, Eurydice, and The Orchestra (Methuen World Classics)
This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), one of France's best-known dramatists, includes some of his most enduring work: The Rehearsal ("quintessential Anouilh," Herald Tribune); Becket, which focuses on the relationship between Becket and Henry II; and The Orchestra, "A Play Within a Concert," all translated by Jeremy Sams; together with Eurydice, an ironic modern reworking of the myth ("a fascinating piece," Financial Times), translated by Peter Meyer. Becket: "Witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence ... it can hold an audience spellbound."-Financial Times The Rehearsal: "Jeremy Sams has translated impeccably."-Observer .
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Anouilh Plays: One: Antigone, Locadia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, and Poor Bitos (World Dramatists Series)
A selection of the most enduring work by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), one of this century's best-known French playwrights Antigone, Poor Bitos and The Lark (a version of the Joan of Arc story) show his fondness for reworking myth, history, and legend, while Locadia and The Waltz of the Toreadors represent another talent-for ironic, modern comedy. The translations are by Barbara Bray, Christopher Fry, Lucienne Hill and Timberlake Wertenbaker..
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Antigone
The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone defies the law, sealing her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's Antigonewas seen by the French as theatre of the rsistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of authority. Special feature: Post show conversation with Director Brendon Fox and translator Christopher Nixon.
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