ANTIGONE

by Sophocles, translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker

created by PowderHouse

for National Theatre Wales, Sherman Theatre & BBC Arts

2020

Director / Dramaturg Chelsey Gillard & Jac Ifan Moore

Cast Erin Doherty, Bethan Mary-James, Neal Mcwilliams, Sophie Melville, Alexandria Riley, Sule Rimi

Thebes is on the brink; ravaged by plague and torn apart by governmental collapse following a civil war that pits brother against brother. Now at long last, a fractured peace has emerged. Heroes will be honoured. Traitors will rot unburied. The law will be upheld.

But what if obeying the law means abandoning your beliefs? Enter Antigone, daughter of ill-fated Oedipus, whose defiance threatens the stability of the entire state.

Over 2,400 years since it was first performed PowderHouse share an experimental reading to examine the fractious relationship between rulers and the ruled in a time of national crisis.

Honour the law. Honour the gods. Honour your dead.