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Innovative theatre company Actors of Dionysus combine bold ideas with visceral physical theatre in this new adaptation by Christopher Adams captured in 2017 at the Sandpit Theatre, St Albans. - **4**Productions - **8**Video resources - **5**Written resources Discover video and written resources to help you teach *Antigone*, including lesson activities, contextual guides, and exclusive insights from performers and practitioners. ## Top resource picks ### Antigone Study Guide Give your students the ultimate introduction to the play’s characters, themes, language and more. ### Antigone Practical Workshop Guide Deepen your students’ understanding of the play as a blueprint for performance with this practical workshop guide. ### Plays Through Practice: Antigone Investigate interpretative choices in Antigone with exercises for directing, design and acting in this Plays Through Practice guide. ### Antigone – BBC Studios Juliet Stevenson plays the title role of Antigone in the final chronological instalment in the tale of Oedipus and his offspring. ### Antigone – Broadway Digital Archive Jean Anouilh’s powerful and original adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy stars acclaimed actress Genevieve Bujold as the headstrong Antigone. ### On Directing: An Interview with Polly Findlay Polly Findlay reflects on her directing practice and investigates contemporary retellings of classical texts, using Antigone as an example. ### The Greeks Theatre critic Lyn Gardner considers how the stories in ancient Greek plays can be easily adapted and made relevant to political, moral and social issues in today’s society. 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