Sarah Stanton Archives - North West End UK

In this bold and dark retelling of Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, Edinburgh-based theatre company Mythography is led by French director Philomène Cheynet, bringing us an intense and shrouding take on this classic Greek tragedy to the Edinburgh Fringe. Featuring large plastic, opaque curtains hanging from the ceiling, masked figures and handheld light bars that highlight and shadow the characters on stage, this production focuses on all that is hidden in war and peace. Beginning the show with the cast standing backlit behind the opaque sheets and our narrator figure standing in front, we are immediately set up to receive both the aesthetic and thematic values of this play. Cheynet’s vision is strong and purposeful, holding value on the more experimental side of theatre as well a...

When Jane Austen died in July of 1817, she left behind six completed novels (four already published and two released not long after her death) and several volumes of unpublished juvenilia, as well as two aborted novel starts. These include Sanditon, which she was working on when she died, and 1803's The Watsons, which marked the transitionary period between her childhood attempts and the later novels with which she would find various levels of success. Austen's subsequent comparatively small canon of works and her status in literature has led to a small but passionate fascination with these lesser works, especially in recent years. While continuations, sequels and spin-offs of Austen are nothing new, over the last decade we have also had big-name adaptations of Lady Susan from her juven...

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Antigone – Institut Français Écosse

The Watsons – Church Hill Theatre