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Antigone's Bodies: Performing Torturel MARLA CARLSON Can torture be represented onstage without repeating and reveling in the violation of the victim? After reviewing some of the negative answers to this question , this article examines the more positive alternative presented by two treatments of the Antigone legend: Griselda Gambaro's An/Igona Furiosa, and The Island, by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. By focusing spectator attention on the body of the actor

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