With Lena Papaligoura, recent winner of the Melina Mercouri Award in the main role and other well-known actors such as Vicky Papadopoulou, Christos Sapountzis, Lydia Fotopoulou and Orfeas Avgoustidis , Sophocles’ Antigone will be presented only for 15 performances from June 19- July 7 at the atrium of Benaki Museum (at Pireos Street 138) in a co-production with the Athens Festival.
The theatrical performance of Sophocles’ Antigone, put together by Lykophos, is directed by Natassa Triantafylli. The original score is by Monika, the lighting by Scott Bolman (who does lighting for Bob Wilson) and the costumes by Ioanna Tsami.
“The planning of the performance is based on the notion of proeconomia, the previous arrangement of the events and the acts of the heroes, as well as on the darkness of misunderstanding, the feeling that the heroes think they do the right but they are deceived by the goddess Ate,” explains Natassa Triantafylli.
“The performance makes us think of the limits between the private world and the public life,” Triantafylli added. Sophocles’ Antigone is a work isolated and tragic on the borderline between the old and the new, at that critical moment where Ate, the goddess of delusion, plunges humankind into even deeper darkness.
The talented actors taking part, drawn from the contemporary Greek theatre scene, boldly dissect the actions of our heroes to reveal lofty concepts. In the atrium of the Benaki Museum, the activities of these tragic figures are set in the dark and enter the light within a time-frame that is both present and uncertain.
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