ANTHROPOLIS V: Antigone

In the organizer's words:

by Sophocles/ Roland Schimmelpfennig
Director: Karin Beier

With Antigone, this indomitable rebel against male orderliness, the end of the ruling dynasty of the Labdakids is reached. Here the circle closes, and it is no coincidence that the most famous lines about the Anthropos come from this tragedy by Sophocles: "Many things are mighty, but nothing is mightier than man."

Roland Schimmelpfennig translates "Antigone" into a contemporary poetic language that makes female resistance to the powerful state of Thebes and its politics seem extremely contemporary.

Antigone's uncle Creon, the eternal second man in the state, has finally come to power after many years of being a proxy. The war of aggression against Thebes has just been averted when Creon is already in danger of failing in his first official act: he has to pass judgment on his niece Antigone, who values her ethical imperative above the law of the state. But Creon is convinced that morality is a poor political advisor. He sentences Antigone to a punishment that could not be more barbaric: She is to be walled up alive. Humanity is sacrificed to law-abidingness. Once again, the city's system collapses in an act of violence that breaks through the surface of its beautiful appearance.

With: Ute Hannig, Josefine Israel, Maximilian Scheidt, Lilith Stangenberg, Ernst Stötzner and Michael Wittenborn

Director: Karin Beier
Stage: Johannes Schütz
Costumes: Wicke Naujoks
Lighting: Annette ter Meulen
Music: Jörg Gollasch
Collaboration on costumes: Teresa Heiß
Bodywork: Valenti Rocamora i Tora
Dramaturgy: Sybille Meier and Christian Tschirner

Further information: Antigone | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg