ANTIGONE

In the organizer's words:

Bühne Cipolla from Bremen stages the famous fate of Antigone as visually powerful puppet theater with live music and thus shows some of the central conflicts of human existence as if in passing.

A newly crowned king issues an order - and his niece ignores it. Antigone buries her brother who died in the war, although King Creon, her uncle, has forbidden this on pain of death. He sees the fallen man as a traitor to his country and justifies his mercilessness with reasons of state. Antigone, on the other hand, believes her actions are legitimized by ethical values and moral imperatives.

Almost 2500 years ago, the Greek poet Sophocles created a text that brings together all the essential conflicts of human existence: the confrontation between old and young, man and woman, society and the individual, the living and the dead, man and the gods. In times of increasing hostility towards democracy and the worldwide rise of populist tendencies, this play has lost none of its gripping, moving drama to this day.

"Antigone, whose fate Sophocles turned into a world-famous drama. This can now be seen in a rather unusual version. Because the cast is manageable, it can be translated into puppet theater. Bühne Cipolla stages the fate of Antigone with live music to show some of the central conflicts of human existence." - Trailer Ruhr