Antigone

In the organizer's words:

by Sophocles / Director: Selen Kara

The war is over. What remains is to bury the dead. Eteocles, the victorious defender of the city of Thebes, is to be honored with a state funeral. Polyneikes, the defeated attacker, is to decompose unburied outside the gates. This is what Creon, her uncle, the ruler, wants. But both are Antigone's brothers. She loved them both. Can she deny the one what reason of state demands of the other? Is it right to take revenge on the dead? Antigone breaks Creon's law. This is punishable by death. Her unconditional moral awareness exposes the pragmatism of power at the cost of life. Her desire undermines a cold order, but opens the door to cruelty and destruction. Director Selen Kara, whose work is being shown in Frankfurt for the first time, questions the ancient material from the perspective of women. In doing so, she draws attention to the continuities of the conflicts between conscience and order, freedom and destiny - from the ancient curse of the Labdakids to the portents of the present day.