Three Antigones and one author: Guillermo Heras Antígona en la frontera, Hantígona and Ardiente Antígona

Abstract

The Spanish actor, director, critic, cultural manager, teacher and playwright Guillermo Heras, although he is an international reference in contemporary drama and its staging, was also interested in Greek mythology and the classics, publishing texts inspired by the figures of Phaedra, Andromache and Antigone. We look at the three titles that have come from the pen of Heras, one published (Ardiente Antígona) and two of them unpublished (on loan from the author to me), composed months before his death in 2023. Interested in very different characters, located in dissimilar spaces and times, under disparate moral codes, but facing the same problems both in fiction and in reality, dominated by passions that make them seem more and more human, I am interested in determining how his Antigones are projected in successive dramatic variations, but with the same purpose: to awaken the spectator’s lucidity about the world that welcomes them.