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I’m dramaturging for a production of Anouilh's Antigone and I have Strong Opinions about how sympathetic one finds his Antigone to be being connected to one’s age but I don’t know how to express them to a cast of predominantly young people without seeming condescending
I’m too tired to be articulate right now but, in short, I think 18-22 year old me would have found his Antigone so romantically heroic, but I first read this play in my late 20s and was instead struck by how much more sympathetic Creon was than in Sophocles’ version
But I don’t know how to express that without sounding like the people who told me things like “you’ll understand when you’re older,” often about topics I have yet to grow less radical about. I bristle deeply at being *that person *
I come back to the Hamilton refrain a lot, that “dying is easy, young man, living is harder.” But it feels v icky and jaded to tell young people that sometimes compromising one’s rigid principles in the interest of incremental progress is a good thing, even though I believe it
