© Ann Liv Young
© Ann Liv Young
© Ann Liv Young
© Ann Liv Young

ANN LIV YOUNG (US)

Antigone

En anglais/In English

  • 90'
  • G Hearing loops
  • A Little or no text

Avec: Ann Liv Young, Daniel Klingen Borg, Veronica Molin Bruce, Lucie Strecker, Wanda Wylova. Texte, mise en scène, costumes, chorégraphie: Ann Liv Young. Dramaturgie: Tormod Carlsen. Scénographie: Alf Ollett. Technique: Oliver Schümperli. Production: Ann Liv Young, Daniel Spildra Borg. Coproduction: Gessnerallee Zürich, Theater Chur, Kunstmuseum Bern, Kulturradet Oslo, Black Box Teater Oslo, Avant Garden Trondheim. Initié par Digitalbühne Zürich.

The American performer Ann Liv Young – an unclassifiable, hyperactive and demanding artist – explores the story of Antigone by concentrating on Bertolt Brecht’s 1948 version, which drew a comparison with the Third Reich, and in which Antigone became a (vain) figure of social resistance. Here, four performers unpick the relational dynamics between Haemon, Antigone and the chorus. Who are our lovers, our friends? And if our best friend the chorus is sleeping with our fiancé/e, would this discovery affect our wider decisions to go against society? A show which goes between the lines to examine how our current political climate is reflected in the questions already raised by Brecht – that is to say, the individual and collective possibilities for action in the face of fascism.