"A Fearless Antigone on Stage"

An experimental English-language staging of Antigone- featuring only four human figures on stage beside "dubbed" mannequins - opened in Athens on July 4. First put on in New York City (May 29 - June 17) by the One Year Lease Troupe (which started off at Vassar College), the play is an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone by Jean Anouilh. Phhilosophical issues feature large in this version, as a conversation with Greek-Dutch director Ianthe Demos revealed the day before opening night at the Theatre Techinis. While in Sophocles' Antigone, the heroine is the moral victor, the in Anouilh's (written in occupied France in 1942), right and wrong are obscured. The Vichy government may have seen what they wanted to see, Demos notes, while in the actual play - in the struggle between the heroine and her uncle - "no one wins or loses in the end." The play is sponsored by Apeiron Photos and the American Community Schools (ACS, of which Demos is an alumna). Shows run at the Theatro Technis through July 8.