Antigonē: A Play Against Birth

I had the pleasure of being a producer and assistant director on antigonē: a play against birth during the summer of 2025. This was a 90-minute theatrical remounting of Sophokles’ Antigonē, translated by Lane St. Sebastian, produced by Theater of the Bacchant and directed by Kaila Tacazon.  This translation was evoking themes of bodily autonomy stripped by an autocratic state and personal rebellion by the individual through its reinterpretation. Each character’s speech is translated in a different linguistic style, spiraling from Antigonē’s poetic free-verse, to Kreon’s American Realism, the Chorus’ iambic pentameter, and Teiresias’ ancient Greek itself. Polyneikes’s body— the source of strife within the story— remained on stage for the entire 90 minutes, forcing the audience to constantly confront the conflict of the show with no escape. 

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Photography by Marcellus Louise

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