'Redtwist presents Anne Carson’s contemporary translation of the Sophoclean tragedy.'
, first performed in Athens in 441 BCE, the title character—Oedipus’s sister as well as his daughter—has returned to her home city of Thebes after her father/brother’s death in exile. The city is recovering from a war in which Oedipus’s two sons/brothers—Eteokles and Polyneikes, rivals for their father’s crown—killed each other in combat. Kreon, the brother of Oedipus’s wife/mother Jocasta , has taken the throne and ordered that Eteokles should be given a hero’s funeral.
The outlaw princess’s fanatical self-sacrifice transcends the deep familial devotion she feels toward her brother—and, by extension, the father/brother they shared. Antigone is a rebel searching for a cause. Her uncle Kreon provides that cause; his tragic error is to attempt to posthumously punish Polyneikes, rather than to try to heal the bitterly divided Thebans with a conciliatory fresh start.
Director Christine Freije, making her Redtwist debut, states in her program notes: “I see her [Antigone’s] spirit in the revolutionary young people of our time, fighting for racial justice, climate change policy, gun control, and reproductive rights. She is adamant, unyielding, and strange.” That description certainly fits the performance of Isabel Alamin, whose sinewy physique, sharply etched features, blazing eyes, and electric intensity bring the title role to crackling life.
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