David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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get transformed into questions of minority dissent against state tyranny,
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that this has become one of the most performed and adapted plays of all time.
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As you said, it's a big interest of Hegel's and Anne Carson in her adaptation.
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Antigone has a a funny exchange between Antigone and Ismone that is partially a play on the the meaning of the name Antigone, which means against birth or against reproduction or instead of being born, which is possibly partly relating to the bad o
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Of being a daughter of Oedipus.
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And Carson's sisterly exchange goes.
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Antigone.
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We begin in the dark, and birth is the death of us.
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Ismini, who said that?
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Antigone, Hegel.
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Ismone sounds more like Becket, Antigone, he was paraphrasing Hegel.
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Ismone, I don't think so.
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But you also have a famous Brecht adaptation where Antigone has a door strapped to her back throughout the play, which certainly evokes this sense of non-arrival that your book does too, I think.
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There are adaptations by black Caribbean writers Patrick Chamwasseau and Kamal Brathwaite, as you mentioned, Judith Butler and other feminist theorists.
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whose centering of Antigone is feels like a corrective of Freud's centering of Oedipus.
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You also have this remarkable adaptation by the Nez Perce writer Beth Pietot and Tikany, where Creon is a museum director.
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and his niece Antikone wants to repatriate the remains of two nineteenth century indigenous brothers.
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And they actually perform this play in the Hearst Museum, that to many Native Americans is the scene of the crime, performing literally above the bodies of indigenous people that have been interred as artifacts in in the building.
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It makes me think of how the crime of Creon in the time of the mythic gods was that he inverted the cosmos by leaving the dead unburied above ground, which has grave consequences for their souls in this cosmology, but then imprisoning Antigone alive underground, putting the living below and the dead above.
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But perhaps I think most of how during Mandela's imprisonment on Robin Island, the prisoners were allowed once a year to put on a play for their guards and peers, and they choose to do a 15-minute scene from Antigone.
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