Antigone
Bertolt Brecht
Play.
Translations: K. I. Porter, Robert Cannon
A prologue set in 1945 Berlin shows two sisters whose brother has deserted from
the German army and is found hanged: should they risk being seen by the SS cutting
his body down? In the play itself Creon becomes a brutal aggressor, who has attacked
Argos for the sake of its iron ore. Tiresias, instead of prophesying the future,
becomes a pessimistic analyst of the present; while the chorus of elders, always
reserved in its attitude, eventually turns against Creon too. |