Antigone

PLOT

It is the dawn in Thebes, a dawn of victory: the army of the city, led by the son of Oedipus Eteocles, has defeated the army of Argos, led by Polynices, the other son of Oedipus who came to take back the throne. But in a fratricidal clash, Eteocles and Polynices killed each other, and the throne is now passed to their uncle Creon. As a first act, Creont decided to grant funeral honors to Eteocles, leaving instead the corpse of Polynices, enemy of the state, unbured. Antigone, his sister, rebels against the edict: she transgresses the law and buries the body. For this reason, Creon condemns her to be locked up forever in a cave: the words of Ismene - sister of Antigone - and Emone, son of Creon and fiancé of Antigone, are worthless. But the will of the gods manifests itself, and Creone understands it too late: and so he loses Antigone and Emon, suicide deaths, and his wife Eurydice, who takes her own life at the news of her son's death.

Program and cast

ARTISTS

Work of: Sophocles

Translation: Francesco Morosi

Direction: Robert Carsen

Scene: Radu Boruzescu

Costumes: Luis Carvalho

Lights: Robert Carsen, Giuseppe Di Iorio

Movements: Marco Berriel

Music: Cosmin Nicolae

Collaboration with the direction: Stefano Simone Pintor

Assistant set designer: Alison Isabel Walker

Costume designer assistant: Giorgia Tomatis

Head of the Choir: Elena Polic Greco

Stage directors: Dario Castro – Daniele Caruso

CAST

Antigone: Camilla Semino Favro

Ismene: Mersila Sokoli

Creon: Paolo Mazzarelli

Guard: Pasquale Di Filippo

Emon: Gabriele Rametta

Tiresia: Graziano Piazza

Messenger: Dario Battaglia

Euridice: Ilaria Genatiempo

Choir choirs: German Rosary

First Corifea: Elena Polic Greco