Jean Anouilh's Antigone
In the aftermath of war, one girl’s fate unfolds as she ardently follows her conscience and defies the law, whilst a fervent king does everything necessary to hold the state together.
Anouilh and his Chorus watchfully direct us through every form of human emotion; a family torn apart by treachery, the overwhelming aspiration for power, the electric desire of love, and the ironic advantage of detachment.
All these elements are fused together within this tragedy of conscience and it is through Antigone’s desire to martyr herself to the cogs of Creon’s social machine, that the very essence of tragedy is dramatised.
Abstract in its style yet intricate in its design, Captain Theatre’s award winning director presents this incessantly significant landmark in French theatre; using a highly sensory dramatic approach to create an evocative and potent piece of theatre that provokes us into reconstituting our very definition of a tragedy.
Left to right: Benjamin Peters as Creon; Erica Buist as The Chorus
(from the original performance: 10th- 12th Feb 2005)
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