Jamie Ballard’s Teiresias is so convincing, that when he cries: “Are there any wise men left, anywhere?” – I wanted to shout back: “No”! There’s a sensational “banquet of human blood” at the end, as prophesied by Teiresias, and delivered by the design team (with Dan Jones’s frightening sound cues.
Luke Newberry is touching as the son Haemon, who bravely stands up to his cruel father. Jodie Whittaker gives a fiercely feminist performance opposite Christopher Eccleston’s towering, tyrannical Creon. Antigone - Student Editions (Paperback) Your local Waterstones may have stock of this item. The action takes place in a huge government compound/war room (designed by Soutra Gilmour), with bustling aides doubling effectively as the Greek chorus, offering the best lines in Don Taylor’s adaptation. 12 Carson and her colleagues presented a reading of Antigonick in 2012 at the Louisiana gallery in Denmark. Devastated (who wouldn’t be?), Creon ultimately takes responsibility, but too late.įindlay’s smart production reminds us how well Greek tragedies translate into modern settings (even more readily than Shakespeare’s, in my opinion). Antigone, play by Don Taylor 11 Antigone, modern adaptation (87 minute film) by Antonio D'Alfonso (2012) Antigonick, play by Anne Carson (2012) which is a free and poetic adaptation of the Sophocles play. So the story plunges into an abyss of horror (Creon seals Antigone in a cave, Antigone hangs herself, Haemon commits suicide, and so does his mother Eurydice, Creon’s wife). Even Teiresias (the blind seer) makes an 11 th hour appearance, prophesizing doom unless Creon listens to his son and colleagues and changes his mind. Meanwhile, Antigone also happens to be engaged to Creon’s son, Haemon, who pleads with his father in vain to rescind his draconian decree.
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