This shows another way the production can be taken. Amping up the military aspect of the show, the ramps show the separation of classes while the color choices bring forward ideas of totalitarianism governments.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Dramaturgy Ten
This shows another way the production can be taken. Amping up the military aspect of the show, the ramps show the separation of classes while the color choices bring forward ideas of totalitarianism governments.
Dramaturgy Nine
Antigone itself has influenced other arts as well. There are several notable operas by Hasse (1743), Gluck (1756), Zingarelli (1790), Honegger (1927) and Orff (1949). (ORO, Antigone)
There was a one act Ballet with choreography by Cranko, this premiered in 1959 by the Royal Ballet in london. Other Antigone ballets; Gioia (Venice, 1790), G. Galzerani (Milan, 1825). (ORO, Antigone)
There was a one act Ballet with choreography by Cranko, this premiered in 1959 by the Royal Ballet in london. Other Antigone ballets; Gioia (Venice, 1790), G. Galzerani (Milan, 1825). (ORO, Antigone)
We can see the lasting influence of the story through out history and how it has affected other art forms. This again allows us to expand our view of the script and story and make the most effective show/story we can present.
Antigone" The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. by Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell. Oxford University Press Inc. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Central Washington University. 1 November 2010 <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t74.e118>
"Antigone" The Oxford Companion to Music. Ed. Alison Latham. Oxford University Press, 2002. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Central Washington University. 1 November 2010 <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t114.e319>
Dramaturgy Eight
Richard Claverhouse Jebb, was born 27th August 1841 in Dundee, Scotland. He received his education from Charterhouse School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. (Wikipedia)
In his professional life he was a Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era.
His editions of Sophocles plays appeared in the last fifteen years of the nineteenth century. They are distinguished by the sensitivity of Jebb's literary and dramatic interpretations, and the neat translation facing the Greek text. They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship. (Book Christian)
He is considered the unsurpassed translator into or from classical languages.
A short list of his works (via Wikipedia):
-The Characters of Theophrastus (1870), (text, introduction, English translation and commentary)
-The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (2nd ed., I893)
-Sophocles (3rd ed., 1893) (the seven plays, text, English translation and notes, future edition including the fragments was prevented by his death)
-Homer (3rd ed., 1888), (an introduction to the Iliad and Odyssey)
The reason we’re using Jebb’s translation is because he is considered to have the most complete translation. He also grasps the language in a way that reads better for actors and it communicates the ideas of the political struggle stronger then other editions/translations.
Jeb, Richard Claverhouse in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
R. C. Jebb: R. C. Jebb Biography, Products, Reviews - BooksChristian.com." BooksChristian - Christian Books, Bibles, Bible Study, Christian Music, Hymnals, Christian Videos. Web. 31 Oct. 2010. <http://www.bookschristian.com/R-C-Jebb-s/54420.htm>.
In his professional life he was a Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era.
His editions of Sophocles plays appeared in the last fifteen years of the nineteenth century. They are distinguished by the sensitivity of Jebb's literary and dramatic interpretations, and the neat translation facing the Greek text. They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship. (Book Christian)
He is considered the unsurpassed translator into or from classical languages.
A short list of his works (via Wikipedia):
-The Characters of Theophrastus (1870), (text, introduction, English translation and commentary)
-The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (2nd ed., I893)
-Sophocles (3rd ed., 1893) (the seven plays, text, English translation and notes, future edition including the fragments was prevented by his death)
-Homer (3rd ed., 1888), (an introduction to the Iliad and Odyssey)
The reason we’re using Jebb’s translation is because he is considered to have the most complete translation. He also grasps the language in a way that reads better for actors and it communicates the ideas of the political struggle stronger then other editions/translations.
Jeb, Richard Claverhouse in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
R. C. Jebb: R. C. Jebb Biography, Products, Reviews - BooksChristian.com." BooksChristian - Christian Books, Bibles, Bible Study, Christian Music, Hymnals, Christian Videos. Web. 31 Oct. 2010. <http://www.bookschristian.com/R-C-Jebb-s/54420.htm>.
Dramaturgy Seven
cursillo-canada.org
Both of these images show the bleakness and desperation that Antigone is suffering at the beginning of the show, just wanting a simple burial for her brother. Going so far as to break the respectful burial down to a few grains of sand on top of his body before the beasts get to him.
Dramaturgy Six
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XI85jPbcps
This video shows that the ideas in Antigone, standing up for what you believe in even if it is against family/the state/media, still hold true. It shows that the ideas are universal, they have passed through ages and various forms of art. From social and political commentary in greece, to angst ridden teens pushing the limits in music.
Please note there is some rough language used.
This video shows that the ideas in Antigone, standing up for what you believe in even if it is against family/the state/media, still hold true. It shows that the ideas are universal, they have passed through ages and various forms of art. From social and political commentary in greece, to angst ridden teens pushing the limits in music.
Please note there is some rough language used.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Dramaturgy Five
A monograph, according to Presnell is; a book on a focused subject and more often then not by one author. The book I found was on the every day life of Ancient Greece. I used this book as a basis for looking at the political state of Greece during the time Sophocles wrote and staged Antigone (about 442 BCE).
During the original writing and performances of Sophocles’ Antigone Greece (especially Athens) was in an odd place politically. Twelve years before they had become the Athenian Empire, but hadn’t fully realized its potential (that wouldn’t happen for another eleven years or so. Four years after the original writing of Antigone the Parthenon was completed (Robison, 6), which is widely considered one of the greatest achievements of the ancient world. So the restlessness of the politics that happens in Antigone was a reflection of what Sophocles may have been viewing politically mixed with the rejuvenated religious fervor at the time.
Robinson, Cyril E. Everyday Life in Ancient Greece,. Oxford: Clarendon, 1933. Print.
Dramaturgy Four
In the article “Another Antigone”, Saxonhouse looks at Eudipides exploration/use of the character Antigone in a form we’re not used to seeing. We see a unsettling alternative to the familiar, one that rubs harshly against Sophocles’ influential story. Antigone in Euripides “Phoenician Women” goes through the exploration of “…troubling epistemological disruptions that allow Antigone to become a political actor…” (Saxonhouse, 475)
Euripides play though a more psychological exploration of Antigone, he does explore the political stand of Thebes after Oedipus’ discovery of his incestual relationship with his mother. With both of Antigone’s brothers going to war, Polyneices showing up with an Argive host to demand the throne from his brother Eteocles. Antigone has been kept hidden in her maiden room, till she eventually casts off any shame or respect for the hierarchy that has kept her hidden. And she eventually gains the strength to rise above gender restrictions that kept her repressed throughout her life. (Saxonhouse 479-480)
Seeing a different side to Antigone allows us to approach our production with a wider view, allowing us to find a more dimensional world. We can look back and find where Antigone came from. Also Euripides gives us a better view of the political turmoil that Thebes was going through.
Saxonhouse, Arlene W. "Another Antigone: The Emergence of the Female Political Actor in Euripides' "Phoenician Women"" JSTOR: Political Theory 33.4 (2005): 472-94. Print.
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