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Antigone and Cyrano de Bergerac: Two adaptations for Sport for Jove

by Damien Ryan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781760620868
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Currency Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Currency Press
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  • Pages: 226
  • Original Price: GBP 15.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 254 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Australian & Oceanian

'Who here can tell what law we owe the dead?' Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, is a child of war. Thousands of years ago she asked a question: What do we do with the body of the enemy when this enemy is our brother? Damien Ryan's new adaptation of Sophocles' classic takes the conflicts of ancient Thebes and wrenches them passionately into the present. This story of war and its aftermath is a powerful yet vulnerable allegory about one of history's most famous families. Sport for Jove's production of Antigone won seven Sydney Theatre Awards in 2016.

'It stays with me, one thing- my panache!' Cyrano de Bergerac is convinced that his outrageously sized nose will forever stop him from being loved by Roxane, his intellectual and beautiful friend. But Roxane is in love with Christian, a handsome yet inarticulate soldier in Cyrano's regiment. Together, Christian and Cyrano make a flawless human. The epic plot of Edmond Rostand's original 1890s tragicomic French masterpiece spans a whole war, from Parisian bakeries to the bloody battlefront. This new adaptation by Damien Ryan brings the action forward to WWI, where Cyrano is a war poet like no other. Sport for Jove's production of Cyrano de Bergerac won three Sydney Theatre Awards in 2013.

Ryan, Damien: - DAMIEN RYAN is Managing Artistic Director of Sport for Jove Theatre. In 2016 he directed Taming of the Shrew and Away. Previous directing credits include Love's Labours Lost, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Crucible, Cyrano de Bergerac, All's Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys (with Terry Karabelas), national tours of Hamlet and Henry V, co-directing Henry 4 with John Bell, Romeo and Juliet over three seasons, and the Actors at Work program. He founded the Sydney Hills Shakespeare in the Park and The Leura Shakespeare Festival. He has acted and directed many plays across Australia. His awards include Green Room Award Best Production for Henry V, Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Independent Production for Iago in Othello; Best Production for All's Well That Ends Well; Best Director and Production for Henry V; Best Director and Best Production for Cyrano de Bergerac; Best Production for The Libertine; and nominations for Best Director for The Libertine, Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew; and Green Room nomination Best Director, Henry V. Ryan has been a proud MEAA member for 23 years.

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