Antigone
Antigone’s refusal to obey Creon confronts his pragmatic acceptance of political power in Anouilh’s reworking of the ancient story.
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Antigone’s refusal to obey Creon confronts his pragmatic acceptance of political power in Anouilh’s reworking of the ancient story.
An ageing general convenes his family to condemn his hunchbacked sister Ardèle's romance with a tutor. Behind her locked bedroom door, the unseen couple become a target of the family's hypocritical, self-interested advice and scandalized judgment.
The play is a re-enactment of the conflicts between King Henry II and Thomas Becket as the latter (Henry's best friend) ascends to power, becoming the king's enemy. Becket begins as a clever, but hedonistic, companion; as a result of being created Archbishop of Canterbury, he is transformed into an ascetic who does his best to preserve the rights of the church against the king's power. Ultimately, Becket is slaughtered by several of the king's nobles; and lastly we find the king thrust into penance for the episcopicide.
A crime novelist supports a demanding family whose progressive ideals mask their selfish behavior. When a Sicilian publisher besieges the house to avenge his daughter’s seduction, the trapped household exposes its hypocrisies.
When Julien leaves his young wife Colombe, his self-centred actress mother hires her at the theatre. Colombe welcomes the chance to become independent, while Julien’s jealousy toward his favored brother and his mother’s intervention deepen the family conflict.
After playwright Antoine dies in his Bavarian castle, his former wives and other important people in his life gather to hear his will. Trapped there by an avalanche, they discover that Antoine had meticulously arranged the gathering and written a play about it.
Antigone’s refusal to obey Creon confronts his pragmatic acceptance of political power in Anouilh’s reworking of the ancient story.
An ageing general convenes his family to condemn his hunchbacked sister Ardèle's romance with a tutor. Behind her locked bedroom door, the unseen couple become a target of the family's hypocritical, self-interested advice and scandalized judgment.
The play is a re-enactment of the conflicts between King Henry II and Thomas Becket as the latter (Henry's best friend) ascends to power, becoming the king's enemy. Becket begins as a clever, but hedonistic, companion; as a result of being created Archbishop of Canterbury, he is transformed into an ascetic who does his best to preserve the rights of the church against the king's power. Ultimately, Becket is slaughtered by several of the king's nobles; and lastly we find the king thrust into penance for the episcopicide.
A crime novelist supports a demanding family whose progressive ideals mask their selfish behavior. When a Sicilian publisher besieges the house to avenge his daughter’s seduction, the trapped household exposes its hypocrisies.
When Julien leaves his young wife Colombe, his self-centred actress mother hires her at the theatre. Colombe welcomes the chance to become independent, while Julien’s jealousy toward his favored brother and his mother’s intervention deepen the family conflict.
After playwright Antoine dies in his Bavarian castle, his former wives and other important people in his life gather to hear his will. Trapped there by an avalanche, they discover that Antoine had meticulously arranged the gathering and written a play about it.
In a 1930s troupe of travelling performers, Eurydice and the violinist Orphée fall in love and flee together. After her death, a mysterious man offers Orphée a chance to reunite with her if he resists looking into her eyes; his doubts about her past destroy the reunion, and the lovers meet again only after his own death.
After a doctor enables Humulus to speak one word a day, he saves words to declare his love to a girl. At the crucial moment, he spends most of his remaining words directing her to the beach, then discovers she is hard of hearing and cannot hear his declaration.
At a society ball, twins Horace and Frédéric are caught in different romantic pursuits: Frédéric loves Diana, who desires Horace. To disillusion his brother, Horace invites Isabelle, a dancer, and stages her transformation into an aristocratic beauty.
Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival) is a play written by French playwright Jean Anouilh, first staged at Théâtre des Arts, Paris on 17 August 1938.
Gaston, an amnesiac veteran, is claimed by several families and identified as Jacques Renaud, a cruel young man before the First World War. Unable to reconcile that past with his present self, he leaves the Renauds and joins a surviving boy’s family, telling Jacques’s brother that Jacques is dead.
Across episodes from childhood to adulthood, Antoine de Saint-Flour is haunted by guilt over a childhood prank and later faces family and class tensions as a contested playwright.
A prince, inconsolable after the death of the Romanian opera singer Léocadia, lives inside the memory of their three days together. His aunt recreates their settings and hires Amanda, a poor milliner who resembles Léocadia, to draw him back toward life; Amanda helps him recognize that his idealized memory is an illusion.
Hugo tries to save his shy twin Frederic from an unhappy marriage by bringing a beautiful dancer to a lavish ball. Her arrival disrupts the wealthy guests’ romantic schemes and entangles her own feelings.
During her trial, Joan of Arc reenacts key events from her life and is condemned to death. At the stake, Cauchon realizes the judges have not allowed her to relive Charles VII’s coronation; the fire is extinguished and Joan receives a reprieve, leaving the outcome open.
Joan reenacts her life during trial and faces condemnation. In Hellman's version, the play's account of the trial, execution, and reprieve presents Joan's story through multiple viewpoints and leaves the final historical outcome unresolved.
In 1910 France, retired General Léon Saint-Pé dwells on an unconsummated flirtation from seventeen years earlier. When Ghislaine returns, his hopes of rekindling it collide with his hypochondriac wife and a younger rival.
Anthony Weigh transposes Anouilh’s amnesiac-soldier drama to 1950s America, reframing the story as a distinct stage adaptation.
After a businessman's error leads to bankruptcy and a fifteen-year Italian prison sentence, Ludovic rejoins his family on his brother-in-law's yacht at Cannes. His brother-in-law has arranged the marriage of Ludovic's stepdaughter to an influential young man to restore the family's standing, but Ludovic's prison experience has changed him.