Antigone Dead People (2012)

Produced by

Small Wooden Shoe and Theatreworks Productions

Playwright: Evan Webber
Director: Jacob Zimmer

Venue

The Tranzac Club – The Main Hall

Run

October 18th, 2012 – October 19th, 2012

Synopsis

It’s an Antigone that hinges on reasonable accommodation and terrorism. That asks real – difficult, tragic – questions about our capacity to deal with migration and difference. A contemporary mythic Antigone that is as ambiguous, complex and painful as politics, family and death actually are. The production is for a community hall. Rough and stunning. Scale and grassroots. With beautiful costumes and the kind of embedded technology we all live with – a layering of pre-recorded and live voice,  noises and music, with flat screen live feed television. A world of mediatized politics, constant surveillance, a robot tank and uncertain realities .

It’s an Antigone performed by ghosts. The ghosts of the characters of Antigone. Ghosts who, after two thousand years of enacting their stories over and over – stories of rebellion and death, of  “the strangers at the gates”, of generational conflict and civil wars –these ghosts begin to wonder what would happen if they could tell a different story. (smallwoodenshoe.org)

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Cast

Maev Beaty	Antigone
Philip Shepherd	Creon
Liz Peterson	Ismene
Frank Cox-O’Connell	Haemon
Sean Dixon	Polynixes
Antonio Cayonne	Guard
Sky Gilbert	Mourner
Lindsey Clark	Apprentice Mourner

Creative Team

Evan Webber	Playwright
Jacob Zimmer	Director
Leora Morris	Associate Director
Christopher Willes	Sound Designer
Trevor Schwellnus	Scenography
Trevor Schwellnus	Video
Vanessa Fischer	Costumes
K. Scott Maynard	Vocal Arrangements
K. Scott Maynard	Vocal Direction

Production

Marcie Januska	Stage Manager
Matt Smith	Voice Recording
J.P. Robichaud	Producer
Adrian Proszowski	Theatreworks Productions
Erika Hennebury	Advocate
Mark Loeser	Documentation
Erika Jacobs	Documentation
Vanessa Janiszewski	Props
Leanne McDonald	Room Decoration

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