Antigone (1948)

Original id:

733

Start date:

15 February 1948

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Adaptation

Production notes:

Brecht's adaptation was based on Hölderlin's translation of the play; Hölderlin's text, published in 1804, had not previously been staged.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

German

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script	Author(s)
Antigone	Sophocles AKA Sophokles
Antigone	Bertolt Brecht

Person	Role	Notes
Bertolt Brecht	Director
Helene Weigel	Actor	Antigone

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Stadttheater (Chur, Kanton Graubünden, Switzerland)		15 February, 1948	première

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Inszenierung der Antike: das Griechische Drama auf der Bühne der Neuzeit	Book	library	186-191, 402
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy	Book	library	318
The Fragmented Text: The Classics and Post-War European Literature	Photocopy	archive	555
Antigone	Programme	archive
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium	Book	library	213, 374
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of World Theatre	Book	library	48
The Politics of Greek Tragedy	Book	library	144 ff.
TLS book review : 'The great hero is destroyed'	Newspaper article	archive

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