Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage [Hardcover]

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stageis the first book to analyse what happens to Sophocles' play as it is adapted and (re)produced around the world, and the first to focus specifically onAntigonein performance. The essays, by an international gathering of noted scholars from a wide range of disciplines, highlight the numerous ways in which social, political, historical, and cultural contexts transform the material, how artists and audiences in diverse societies including Argentina, The Congo, Finland, Haiti, India, Japan, and the United States interact with it, and the variety of issues it has been used to address.

1. Introduction: Mobilizing Antigone,Erin B. Mee & Helene P. Foley
I. Antigone in Antiquity
2. Antigone and the Internationalization of Theatre in Antiquity,Edith Hall
II. An Ancient Greek Play?
3. An Argentine Tradition,Moira Fradinger
4. Irish Antigone and Burying the Dead,Fiona Macintosh
III. Cultural Freedom
5. The Fight for Regional Autonomy Through Regional Culture: Antigone in Manipur, NE India,Erin B. Mee
6. Danbala's Daughter: Felix Morisseau-Leroy's Antigon,Moira Fradinger
7. Antigone Inculturated in Tainan of Southern Taiwan,Dongshin Chang
8. How the Fish Swims in Dirty Water: Antigone in Indonesia,Cobina Gillitt
IV. Antigone and Human Rights
9. Performing Rebellion: Eurydice's Cry in Turkey,Serap Erincin
10. `You should have listened instead of mocking the spirits': Yup'ik Antigone in the Arctic,Dave Hunsaker
11. Declaring and Rethinking Solidarity: Antigone in Cracow,Marc Robinson
V. Individual vs. Collective
12. The Ku Na'uka Theatre Company's Antigone in Tokyo,Mae J. Smethurst
13. 'Suspect always, like the truth': The Antigone of Aris Alexandrou on the Urban Stage of Thessl³¢