ANTIGONE

In the organizer's words:

ANTIGONE

by Sophocles and using "The Three Lives of Antigone" by Slavoj Žižek

In an adaptation by Mateja Koležnik and Diana Koloini, German by Frank Born

"It takes a long time to go a short way."

Seven years after her production of "Oedipus", Slovenian director Mateja Koležnik is now bringing the next part of the myth about the Theban royal family to the Resi stage, which is both a political thriller and a family epic. Oedipus' sons are already dead when the action begins, and yet they are the bone of contention: they have killed each other in a duel in the fight for the throne, their uncle Creon takes over the regency and finally wants to ensure better times in the house of the tragically blind Oedipus - in a country that has long suffered from plague and war. He forbids the burial of the attacker Polyneikes, whereupon his sister Antigone revolts and prefers to die rather than obey the king's order. What is the conflict here? State authority versus religious custom, strict rational command versus rebellious feeling, old man versus young woman? The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek sees the chorus, the people, as the third power and thus shows how far removed the conflict in the royal house has become from social reality. Mateja Koležnik combines Sophocles' drama with this contemporary reading and reinterprets the myth for a time in which personal and social well-being are once again being weighed up against each other.

"I know that theater is about distinguishing between right and wrong, deciding which character to side with. In 'Antigone', the personal right, which is based on one's own family, one's own beliefs, is pitted against that of the state and its decisions. When I read the play today, I think that both are in the wrong and that they are not even prepared to listen to each other. That's why I want to tell the story from both perspectives." Mateja Koležnik

Artistic direction

Production Mateja Koležnik
Stage Christian Schmidt
Costumes Ana Savić Gecan
Music Bert Wrede
Lighting Gerrit Jurda
Choreography Matija Ferlin
Dramaturgy Constanze Kargl

Price information:

10€ for students