Antigone Reviews
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
"...Neil LaBute puts a 21st-century spin on French playwright Jean Anouilh's 1944 adaptation of Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy Antigone, itself a thinly veiled attack on the Nazi-allied Vichy government that controlled Paris during World War II, in the compelling, thought-provoking latest from City Garage."
Night Tinted Glasses- Highly Recommended
"...Antigone, both character and story, prove inexorable. Creon's efforts at their heart prove cruel, arrogant, tragic for himself as well as everyone else. Neither will bend. Neither will change. Neither, though, ever seem anything other than human. Just as neither come across as fanatics, given when they do believe. And the whole ensemble creates the framework (including Dani Frank as the Page, and Martha Duncan as the Nurse) which makes all this feel real. In a very real way one feels this fictional version of Thebes as real as Los Angeles in this, our year of the Lord 2025. As indeed it is, in some way."
Stage Raw- Recommended
"...Director Frederique Michel and City Garage's newest venture is Neil LaBute's modern adaptation of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, adapted in turn from Sophocles' Greek tragedy. Anouilh's version, which he wrote it in response to the brutal Nazi occupation of France and rule of the collaborationist Vichy government, premiered in Paris in 1944. In those dark times, the play was interpreted as a call to courageous resistance, and even after 80-plus years, it speaks clearly to the present political environment. The plot structure is basically the same for all three versions of the play."