ANTIGONE [on strike]
WRITER AND DIRECTOR | ALEXANDER RAPTOTASIOS
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGE | OR BENEZRA-SEGAL
SET DESIGNER | MARCO TURCICH
COSTUME DESIGNER | MARIE-CECILE INGLESI
VIDEO CONTENT CREATOR | VITTORIA BELLI
PLAYTEXT EDITOR | JULIA CATERINA HARTLEY
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP DESIGNER | HAFSAH ANEELA BASHIR
CASTING DIRECTOR | ELLIE COLLYER-BRISTOW CDG
PHOTOGRAPHER | YANNICK LALARDY
VIDEO MAPPING | SDNA
PROJECT MANAGER | JULIETA KILGELMANN
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Are the choices we make today ours or already predetermined?
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When Esmeh was 14, she ran away from her East London home and joined the Islamic State in Syria. Now the war is over, she finds herself stranded in a refugee camp and her citizenship cancelled by the UK’s Home Secretary. Her sister Antiya launches a hunger strike to bring her home causing a media frenzy that engulfs her and the Home Secretary’s family in a dangerous PR game no one is sure how to play.
Set in an interactive media studio where you vote and affect the story’s direction, this is a new play inspired by Sophocles’ classic tragedy Antigone and the real stories of the young women who became the so called ‘ISIS Brides’.
Developed through student workshops in East London, this is a challenging immersive theatre piece that looks at the effect of behaviour-predicting technologies on freedom of choice and democracy.
A modern reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy inspired by true stories of the so-called ‘ISIS Brides’ where the audience are asked to vote on the narrative