A.N.T.Í.G.O.N.A.
Event
A.N.T.Í.G.O.N.A. with text and staging by Gonçalo Amorim, is the trail of many and diverse texts written around Antigone (rewritings, essays, approximations) - especially those by George Steiner, Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek and María Zambrano, but also those by Sara Uribe, Eduarda Dionísio, Júlio Dantas, Jean Anouilh or António Pedro. This polysemic nature, strengthened by the creative collaboration of a multidisciplinary team of artists, is at the basis of this performance by Teatro Experimental do Porto for a new take on the Sophocles' play. At a time when the issues of democracy, citizenship, justice and human rights are urgently reappearing on the agenda, a revival of this universal story is vital. with A.N.T.Í.G.O.N.A., we return to nodal dilemmas, between order an peace, tradition and brotherly love, authoritarianism and individuality. We return to Creon and Antigone, opposing (and equally intransigent) voices that challenge us. And if our empathy with Antigone is obvious, what a strange unanimity this is, when History shows that we have often chosen to side with Creon. The polysemy of A.N.T.Í.G.O.N.A. provides a broad questioning of these themes, "mustering courage and deepening the empathy".
