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Antigone

Antigone

Jean Anouilh

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Time & Place
A palace in Thebes, ancient Greece.
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Start: What kind of happiness do you foresee for me? Paint me the picture of your happy Antigone. What are the unimportant little sins that I shall have to commit before I am allowed to sink my teeth into life and tear happiness from it!

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End: It’s you who are the ugly ones, even the handsomest of you–with that ugly glint in the corner of your eyes, that ugly crease at the corner of your mouths. Creon, you spoke the word a moment ago: the kitchen of politics. You look it and you smell of it.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1946, pp. 41-43.

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