Antigone (Brecht play)

Antigone (Brecht play)

"Antigone", also known as "The Antigone of Sophocles", is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of Hölderlin's translation of Sophocles' tragedy. Written in 1947, it was first performed at the Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland in 1948, with Helene Weigel in the lead role.


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