ANTIGONE

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Themis Moumoulidis returns for the third time to Antigone, Sophocles' top tragedy, and to one of the most fascinating heroines in the history of Western drama.
He is joined by an ensemble of exceptional actors, including Lena Papaligoura as Antigone and Meletis Elias as Creon.

The war is over. The dead are gathered under the harsh light of the spotlights. The battlefield is transferred to the polished offices of modern decision-making centres. The harsh, amplified sound of today, the fragile breath of the living voice, the unwrinkled costumes and raki, and the mechanised and desecrated bodies compose a world where conflicts are exacerbated and contradictions deepen.

Our Antigone…
Not to give in. This is her own law.

The claim of the funeral ritual becomes the machine for revealing the relationship between power and death: the resounding denunciation of totalitarianism, which usurps power to exercise every right over the human being, even after death. A power that crushes every concept of humanity, produces and reproduces submission as a measure of normality.

Creon expresses the blind instinct of a naked life in raw biological terms. He wants to extend his power to every aspect of free expression, even its most cowardly-unacknowledged desire.

Creon is the harbinger of today's biopolitics: an unliveable life, where people are the last to learn of their death, not necessarily as biological, but as psychic, political and social persons.
With Antigone, the fields of conflict are questioned: right-wrong, life-death, man-woman, light-darkness, authenticity-compromise, law-right, transgression-submission.

Antigone knows her mortality, but decides the when and how of her death. She reframes every conflict because only in this way does she even turn death into the favour of life. Embracing death, she claims life. A life worth living. Thus, even if she is ultimately led to death and Creon survives, in reality, it is a continuous death of Creon and an opening of Antigone towards the future. In modern life, Antigone is present in the hot spots that pile up, the structures that guard, the borders that electrify, and the seas that drown. She is present in the ever-expanding camps-graves of the living, in the physical and virtual versions of successive layers of confinement, in the games of biopolitics, in the seats and ambushes of death.

Antigone's NO stands as the absolute affirmation.