Antigone by Sophocles (1984 TV) Juliet Stevenson (part 7/11

Juliet Stevenson plays Antigone.

click on link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "Antigone":
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5321CB5DC1092F31

John Churton Collins:

But if Creon is punished, Antigone is punished also.
Does she deserve her fate ? Are we to understand
that the poet in his moral does not design to represent
that the law which she vindicates should
supersede the law which Creon vindicates?

A careful study of the play will surely show that he
leaves the question practically unanswered, or at
all events that what can be urged on either side
is so nicely balanced that it is difficult to say on
which side the scale inclines.

It is important to
remember that if a poet is a moralist and a teacher
he is primarily an artist. Antigone is a noble and
pathetic creation, and the poet has lavished on
her all that can impress and move us. Of this
effect he has been more studious than of the
solution of any moral problem.


Sophocles' Theban Plays, directed and translated by Don Taylor for this production--go here to see Taylor's "Oedipus Rex":
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=422B4AD5E82BE89A

and here to view "Oedipus at Colonus":
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8FE646D5B08C3342

to see Irene Papas as Antigone (1961 film), go here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E1DCC63DB14EC61D


Cast:

Juliet Stevenson ... Antigone

John Shrapnel ... Creon

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
Film Editing by ...Peter Reason
Production Design by ...David Myerscough-Jones
Costume Design by ...Jane Hudson
Geoffrey Lewis .... classical advisor

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• Sophocles
• Juliet-Stevenson
• Antigone
• Αντιγόνη
• Creon
• Greek
• Theban
• Antigoni
• performing
• arts

[whoShartedd]

blind we are not... beauty she has, inside and out

[angels4acause1012]

wow i love her dress she speaks ......her story the best she can.....

[chessykit]

@mrjaden92 The chorus is usually speaking cryptically about the events, and the morals behind the story. They speak in metaphor, and sometimes it takes a second to understand what they're getting at.

[mrjaden92]

what the hell are the chorus talking about... it seems like random chatter.

[30Zoidberg]

@SexiKittie Its not safe to have your computer in the kitchen.

[30Zoidberg]

@angels4acause1012 What the fuck does that mean?

[koenan1]

5:29 I hate him.

[Antigone1Evenstar]

She almost makes me want to cry, the passion in her speech...

[xyWb115]

Antigone ascribes to the highest of human moral, the natural law, that justice is something we intuit, by conscious alone. On the other hand, King Creon, Antigone's uncle on her mother's side, has declared himself, by divine right, to be the incarnation of the law. That law is what he says it is, and not what it ought to be. The contradiction, in this wonderful play is, Creon is a mere man with a mortal mind, so his subjectivity of the law will always be by decree made from fallible reasoing.

[ShaWtyEH]

OMG my eyes I had to tape them that they would stay open... ZzZ pfff ( the girl talks too much, and the guys in black too , and its still part 7 )

[GRACELUVSTOKIOHOTEL]

@SexiKittie He is.. we are studying it in english. Its called Hubris

[RAC6221993]

@00Avenger17 im dying too