Sophokles Antigone

"A marvellous new translation by Anne Carson that crackles with canny colloquialism and insight" - Arts Desk When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, Antigone refuses to leave his body unburied. Defying her uncle's governance she forges ahead with the funeral alone, placing personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction. T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Anne Carson, offers a vivid translation of Sophokles' tragic masterpiece that was first staged in a ground-breaking production at the Barbican in 2015, directed by Ivo van Hove. A raw and beautiful adaption, Sophokles. Antigone is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Laura Jansen.

Anne Carson is a MacArthur Fellow; she has received the Lannan Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize (twice-awarded), and was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany. Anne adapted The Bakkhai for the Almeida in 2015. Classic Stage Company in New York has produced An Oresteia (a trilogy adapted from Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Electra and Euripides' Orestes) in repertory. Norma Jeanne Baker of Troy (a version of Euripides' Helen) has been staged at The Shed in New York. An opera-version of H of H Playbook will be produced in Basel in 2027, composed by Bruce Dessner.

Introduction by Laura Jansen A Note from The Translator Sophokles Antigone