Titled “Antigone According to Bertolt Brecht and Two Stories,” the book also includes two stories by German authors Alfred Döblin and Rolf Hochhuth, all translated by Mahmoud Haddadi, Mehr reported.

How powerful is Sophocles’ story of war, betrayal and familial love that his “Antigone” is reborn time and again onstage? In both its original text and in highly successful adaptations by Bertolt ...

It’s a danger of a drifting time: Individual acts of conscience or political resistance are too easily dismissed as irrelevant, or even cliché. One brilliant afternoon late last fall, I overheard a ...

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The tagline for the Kansas University English Alternative Theatre’s production of “Antigone” is “now more than ever,” and it’s an apt description of Sophocles’ immortal tragedy. For this particular ...

Bertolt Brecht has written 36 shows including Die Sieben Todsünden (Lyricist), Mother (Playwright), Galileo (Playwright), The Good Woman of Setzuan (Playwright), Brecht on Brecht (Lyricist), Man is ...

It is no surprise to see a political figure spotlit by the theatre, but rare to see theatre spotlit by a political figure. Such is the good fortune of “Antigone”, a new production of which opens at ...