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antigone lives*

as part of RISERx 2023

antigone lives*

Written by Susanna Fournier
Directed by Caleigh Crow

Presented as part of  Why Not Theatre and Toronto Metropolitan University’s RISERx 2023.

 

An electrifying and unfaithful take on Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy, this 200 bpm adaptation blends techno, despair, and family politics. One goat and a pack of jackals navigate global displacement as we witness the failure of democracy and subsequent hope for revolution. A thought-provoking and fierce exploration of justice, power, and the human spirit.

 


This project is part of Why Not’s PROVOKE stream of activities. PROVOKE projects are about creating change in our community, city and world.

This performance is 50 minutes.

Age Recommendation: 14+

Content Warnings: Suicide, Guns, Violence

VENUE

The Theatre Centre, BMO Incubator for Live Arts
1115 Queen Street West
Toronto ON M6J 3P4

DATES

  • Wednesday, April 12 – 7pm
  • Friday, April 14 – 9pm
  • Saturday, April 15 – 7pm
  • Wednesday, April 19 – 9pm
  • Thursday, April 20 – 9pm
  • Friday, April 21 – 7pm

TICKETS

Pay what you can afford tickets are available for purchase online or via email at [email protected]

Written by Susanna Fournier

Directed by Caleigh Crow

Performed by Ella Berger, Manon Bourgeois, James Dawson, Jessica Konkle, Nathan Simpson

Set Designer – Delia Yuan

Lighting Designer – Gavin Mcdonald

Costume Designer – Carlyn Rahusaar Routledge

Sound Designer – Sam Fergusson

Directing Coach – Sarah Garton Stanley

Intimacy Director – Corey Tazmania

Fight Director – Christopher Mott

Assistant Set & Props Designer – Alyssa Duhaney

Assistant Lighting Design – Sasha Alymova

Stage Manager – Tanvi Vyas Assistant

Stage Manager – Daniella Reid

Production Manager – Carlos Varela

Technical Director – Curtis Whittaker

Assistant Production Manager – Jonathan Cestnick, Kiera Deorksen Smith

Caleigh Crow (she/her) is a queer Metis theatre artist from Mohkinstsis. She is the co-founder and Artistic Lead of Thumbs Up Good Work Theatre. Her work tends towards themes of metaphysics, class struggle, magic, and joy. Playwriting credits include HEXEN, The Order of the Poor Ladies, Kill Time Before Time Kills You, and There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death; or The Born Again Crow, most recently performed in partnership with Gwaandak Theatre in Whitehorse. Caleigh’s play shrooms was shortlisted for Persephone Theatre’s BIPOC Play Commission in 2020. She was the assistant director for Gender? I Hardly Know Them’s HTTPEEPEE in 2020, and Episode 2 of the webseries. She also directed Round and Round for Lunchbox Theatre’s Stage One Festival. Caleigh was Assistant Director at Vertigo Theatre for Sherlock Holmes and the Vanishing Thimble and The Extractionist. She also directed Napi and the Rock, a short film for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in partnership with Making Treaty 7. She has performed in the Revolution They Wrote: Feminist Short Works Theatre Festival, the Montreal Anarchist Theatre Festival, Sage Theatre’s Ignite! Festival, NextFest, One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo 35×35. You can hear her in the Alberta Queer Calendar Project’s Without You by Elena Belyea, in the role of Andrea, and as Meena in The Strid, by Kiana Wu produced by Downstage Theatre.