College of St Mary - Mosaic Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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with his environment Creon, full of righteousness and edicts, has ordained that one of the broth ers be left unburied-carrion for dog s and Vultures. Antigone, a sister, defied the edict, heaps earth upon the dishonored corpse and is buried alive for punish- ment. This sets off a chain of suicides which rock old Creon to his base. The chorus closes this dynamic tale in the lines: Creon was the most rational, the most persuasive of tyrants. But like all tyrants, he refused to distinguish be- tween the things that are Caesar s and the things that are God's. Now and again--in the three thousand years since the first Antigone --other Antigones have arisen like aclarion call to remind men of this distinction. Their cause is always the same...a passionate re- gard for the sanctity of human dignity. ll 1 Don t try to change things, pleads Ismene played by We are not a particularly affectionate family, are Joanne Welsh. But Kaleen Petsche in the lead role of we Antigone 7 cautions Creon, played by Lew Kucera, Antigone does not seem content with present standards. as he forcibly clinches the wrist of defiant girl. 103

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102 Drama visualizes the encounter 0 man Antigone by Jean Anouilh was the choice Antigone, you have everything in the world to make you happy. All you have to do is reach out for it. Marita Douglass, as the old nurse, tries to comfort. of the Marian Players' Fall Production. Written and produced in Faris in 1943, Anouilh made Antigone a martyr who re- fused a life in which she is promised Happiness--provided that she will agree not to interfere in anything that does not concern her material existence. Antigone was a symbol for the French in their rejection of the German Order with its promise of prosperity, of happiness , provided the French people would agree to surrender their spiritual independence. The basic story of this Greek tragedy involves two sons and two daughters of mother-loving Oedipus, lately departed king of Thebes, and his brother-in-law, Creon, who has now become king. The two brothers have had a civil war and have killed each other. Sitting lost in thought with his little page, is the King. Creon and the page, Nickle Gassman, are introduced by Judy Snell in the role of the Chorus. f it , , ' ' . I f . ii + '- , , I wi ,.i, gf , ,,, V ff, . I . .tiffvxj iw' 'elif F, ,i, . if 'K .N , fa - Alfil 16

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