6/20/2023 0 Comments Brecht antigone![]() ![]() ![]() One man, dressed in the clothes of an ancient civilisation with curly hair and beard, has just finished reading a manuscript the other man keenly watching him. Two men are alone in a sparsely decorated room both sitting opposite each other. In order to commemorate this event, and its importance in the light of the dangerous resurgence of far right ideologies across mainland Europe and globally, the Classics students of the National University of Ireland Galway created a series of visual and literary works comparing Brecht’s Antigone (1948) with Sophocles’ original (441 BC). The 27th of January 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. ![]() For instance, in Kalavryta of a Thousand Antigones Charlotte Delbo chronicles the attempts of the women of the Greek town of Kalavryta to bury 1300 local men, executed by German soldiers in 1943. In transmitting from one political struggle to another, Antigone refuses to leave the Western imagination. Her refusal to obey the stricture of the state, that the body of her brother must be left un-buried after he his deemed a traitor, has provided a focal point for her numerous retellings across a spectrum of different cultures. Antigone has been adopted as a figurehead for protest since she was first conceived by the Classical Greek Playwright Sophocles. ![]()
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