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ADHERE + DENY | ANTIGONE
Antigone
by Bertoldt Brecht captures much of the spirit of Sophocles’ original
but with Brechtian revisions to allow the core of the play to catch up
to our modern conditions. While basing his adaptation on Friedrich Holderlin’s
translation to German, Brecht has added a monologue linking the modern
times with antiquity and ‘emphasis’ on the ‘inevitable
calamity spawned by political rigidity’, quoting Judith Malina.
"Antigone, like Prometheus, stands up against tyranny and is a beacon
of hope. But unlike Prometheus, the survivor and the one who could change
the evil in the heart of a god, Antigone is unable to amend the hearts
of Man. Her act of self-sacrifice is not an act of martyrdom but the act
of an individual who rebels against the tyrannical refusal of Kreon to
act in accordance with humanitarian principles. Antigone still remains
a beacon in our journey to the future.
"Few things could be more timeless than the struggle of moral choice, which is why Antigone’s impact, whether through the eyes of Brecht or even more modern playwrights who are still adapting the ancient words of Sophocles, remain powerful."
-Barbara Stewart. Uptown, September 26, 2002.
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