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Sorry about the buzzing sound, it goes away about halfway thru the play. click on link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "Antigone": http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5321CB5DC1092F31 John Churton Collins: Nothing can illustrate more strikingly the real complexity which underlies and is involved in the apparent simplicity of the art of Sophocles than the ethics of this drama. The central purpose is obviously the relation of the law which has its sanction in political authority and the law which has its sanction in the private conscience, the relation of the obligations imposed on human beings as citizens and members of the state, and the obligations imposed on them in the home and as members of families. And both these laws presenting themselves in their most crucial form are in direct collision. Creon was perfectly justified in issuing the edict which deprived Polyneices of his funeral rites. The young man had fallen in the act of committing the most heinous crime of which a citizen could be guilty, and Creon, as the responsible head of the state, very naturally supposed that exemplary punishment was the culprit's rightful due. The decree issued with its annexed penalty became law, and as the law it was incumbent on every citizen to obey it. In the case of Antigone the other law presents itself at the same crucial point. No private obligation was more sacred and more imperative in the eyes of the Greeks than the duty she undertook, and which, as the last of her race, Ismene excepted, she could delegate to no one else. She had a right to look upon it as a divine commission. She had a right to assert that in defying Creon's edict she was loyal to an unwritten law which had a higher sanction than man's will. Up to this point, then, both are in the right, and neither deserves punishment. Had reason and right feeling ruled Creon, he would have seen that Antigone was perfectly justified in disobeying his edict: had reason ruled Antigone, she would have seen that he was perfectly justified in issuing it. It is not till the interview with Teiresias that Creon transgresses in act and is guilty of sin. Cast: Juliet Stevenson ... Antigone Gwen Taylor ... Ismene John Shrapnel ... Creon Tony Selby ... Soldier Mike Gwilym ... Haemon John Gielgud ... Teiresias Bernard Hill ... Messenger Paul Russell ... Boy Rosalie Crutchley ... Eurydice Patrick Barr ... Chorus Paul Daneman ... Chorus Donald Eccles ... Chorus Robert Eddison ... Chorus Patrick Godfrey ... Chorus Ewan Hooper ... Chorus Peter Jeffrey ... Chorus Noel Johnson ... Chorus Robert Lang ... Chorus John Ringham ... Chorus Frederick Treves ... Chorus John Woodnutt ... Chorus Produced by...Louis Marks Original Music by ....Derek Bourgeois Film Editing by ...Peter Reason Production Design by ...David Myerscough-Jones Costume Design by ...Jane Hudson Geoffrey Lewis .... classical advisor Sophocles' Theban Plays, directed and translated by Don Taylor for this production--go here to see Taylor's "Oedipus Rex": http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=422B4AD5E82BE89A and here to view "Oedipus at Colonus": http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8FE646D5B08C3342 to see Irene Papas as Antigone (1961 film), go here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E1DCC63DB14EC61D(Less)