Sorry about the buzzing sound, most of it goes away soon. click on link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this “Antigone”: youtube.com John Churton Collins: Antigone, it must be remembered, belonged to a doomed family, and her conduct is regarded throughout by the Chorus as an act of infatuation urged on her by the curse resting on that family: it is defended by no one except her lover Haemon. She makes no attempt to conciliate Creon, but maintains throughout a most defiant attitude, glorying alike in her deed and in its penalty. It is indeed difficult to see how Creon, without stultifying his position and his authority, could have acted otherwise than he did. Antigone not merely braves but courts death. That the Gods did not approve of Creon’s treatment of Polyneices may be pleaded in justification of Antigone’s act, but this hardly affects the question of her fate. In her case as well as in Creon’s, it was not so much what they did, as the temper in which what they did was done, that brought ruin on them. Cast: Juliet Stevenson … Antigone Gwen Taylor … Ismene John Shrapnel … Creon Tony Selby … Soldier Patrick Barr … Chorus Paul Daneman … Chorus Donald Eccles … Chorus Robert Eddison … Chorus Patrick Godfrey … Chorus Ewan Hooper … Chorus Peter Jeffrey … Chorus Noel Johnson … Chorus Robert Lang … Chorus John Ringham … Chorus Frederick Treves … Chorus John Woodnutt … Chorus Produced by…Louis Marks Original Music by ….Derek Bourgeois …
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