The action unfurls not in ancient Thebes, said Sarah Hemming in the Financial Times, but in a modern-day suburban home, where King Creon is Chris, his niece Antigone is Annie, and her sister ...

That is, the generalized interpretation is that of Antigone as an impassioned private subject, in line with a generalized cliché of femininity, and Creon symbolizing the cold-heartedness of power.

Antigone’s defiance of King Creon’s edict that her brother Polynices’ body must lie unburied might be a spur to French resistance. In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly walking on eggs.

‘What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne Carson’s 2015 translation, it’s part of the way she updates the language. It also ...

The Richmond Amateur Dramatic Society (RADS) will perform Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of Antigone at the Georgian Theatre Royal.