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.

The first is a French adaptation of the Greek tragedy written by Jean Anouilh, and the second is a German retelling by Bertolt Brecht. First performed in Nazi-occupied Paris, Anouilh placed Antigone ...

Sophocles, Holderlin, Brecht, Malina - four major figures in the world's theatre - have all left their imprint on this remarkable dramatic text. Friedrich Holderlin translated Sophocles into German, ...

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 ...

The New York Times recently published an article on Antigone, the heroine of Sophocles' renowned play, calling her "a 2,500-Year-Old Rebel With a Cause." She was, The Times noted, "the original bad ...

Brecht sought to strip romantic illusion from traditional theatre, much as Marx sought to strip romantic illusion from capitalist economics Bertolt Brecht, a rediscovered source of inspiration In the ...