Antigone

In the organizer's words:

SCHAUSPIEL

Theater am Goetheplatz

German language premiere
by Anne Carson after Sophocles
translated from the English by Maria Milisavljević
Directed by Elsa-Sophie Jach

Antigone buries her brother Polyneikes and thus turns against existing laws. Killed in a battle for the rule of Thebes, Polyneikes is declared an enemy of the state and left to rot on a hill outside the city. But Antigone insists on her right to mourn and opposes the new ruler, her uncle Creon. Her resistance unleashes a whole wave of destruction. Canadian Anne Carson is one of the most important contemporary poets in the English-speaking world and her rewrites of ancient material are dedicated to the parallelism of antiquity and the present. Director Elsa-Sophie Jach returns to Bremen after stints in Munich, Leipzig and Münster to once again turn her attention to a strong, ambivalent protagonist who challenges existing structures with her actions and raises the question of who decides on law and justice in our time.