Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was
occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an
authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French
people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy,
Antigone which was first performed in Athens in the 5th century BC,
its theme was nevertheless topical. For in Antigone's faithfulness
to her dead brother and his proper burial and her reiterated "No!"
to the dictator Creon, the French audience saw its own resistance
to the German occupation. The Germans allowed the play to be
performed presumably because they found Creon's arguments for
dictatorship so convincing. The play is regularly performed and
studied around the world. "Anouilh is a poet, but not a poet of
words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of
players-performing" Peter Brook
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