Musical Theatre - Antigonick

L'Arsenal Jean-Marie Rausch, 3 Avenue Ney

Musical Theatre - Antigonick: In the creations of the Roland Furieux company, the text is recomposed like a musical score, blending narrative, dialogue, music and image. In Antigonick, variation around Sophocles' text, Anne Carson radically revitalizes the myth, cutting certain passages (« to nick ») to focus on others, inviting the voices of Hegel, Arendt, Anouilh or Woolf. On stage, three female voices speak in the present and resonate the power of Antigone: the act of speech, a privileged instrument of thought, a bulwark against injustice, a site of the formation of esprit…