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Jean Anouilh's play Antigone (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tiɡɔn]) is a tragedy inspired by the play of the same name by Sophocles. Performance history.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (/ æ ˈ n uː i /; French: [ʒɑ̃ anuj]; [a] 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades.
Syrian playwright Mohammad Al-Attar adapted Antigone for a 2014 production at Beirut, performed by Syrian refugee women. [30] Antigone in Ferguson is an adaptation conceived in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown by police in 2014, through a collaboration between Theater of War Productions and community members from Ferguson, Missouri ...
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (/ ʒ ɪ r oʊ ˈ d uː /; French: [ipɔlit ʒɑ̃ ʒiʁodu]; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. [1] His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and ...
The Lark (French: L'Alouette) is a 1952 play about Joan of Arc by the French playwright Jean Anouilh. . It was first presented at the Théâtre Montparnasse, Paris in October 1953. Translated into English by Christopher Fry in 1955, it was then adapted by Lillian Hellman for the Broadway production in the same year.
Antigone (1944), French adaptation of Sophocles's play by Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) performed during the Nazi occupation of Paris " Antigone-Legend ", for soprano and piano (text by Bertolt Brecht ), by Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021) and presented as a play in two slightly different versions in 1948 and 1951
Eurydice is a play by French writer Jean Anouilh, written in 1941. The story is set in the 1930s, among a troupe of travelling performers. It combines skepticism about romance in general and the intensity of the relationship between Orpheus and Eurydice with an other-worldly mysticism.
Jean-Baptiste Racine (/ r æ ˈ s iː n / rass-EEN, US also / r ə ˈ s iː n / rə-SEEN; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.