Rereading Antigone in 2084
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https://doi.org/10.14393/LL63-v40-2024-40Keywords:
Anachronism, Justice, Sophocles, Anouilh, ZambranoAbstract
Antigone 2084 is a production by Brazilian playwright and director Rubens Siqueira, written and performed in 2013. It is based on a strange harmony between the Sophoclean model and what could be called science fiction in 2084. From this it can be inferred that anachronism is an essential strategy in supporting the plot. Of the different motifs present in Sophocles' Antigone, the Brazilian version favours the political one. Creon, as the paradigm of the dictator, is therefore highly visible. In addition to his tyrannical traits, one is added due to the play’s anachronistic setting: the 'representative of the nation' is a robot, who works with cables and bionic organs, lacking the humanity that technology irremediably threatens.
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