Starring:
Juliette Binoche
Patrick O'Kane
Kirsty Bushell
Ivo van Hove directs a stellar cast including Juliette Binoche, Obi Abili, Kirsty Bushell, Samuel Edward-Cook, Finbar Lynch, Patrick O’Kane and Kathryn Pogson in Anne Carson’s striking new translation of Sophocles’s great tragedy.
Binoche plays Antigone, a Theban noblewoman whose brother is deemed a traitor after fighting to the death in a vicious civil war. When his body is left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone defies King Kreon to bury her brother with the honours he deserves.
Ivo van Hove made his British debut at the 1998 Edinburgh International Festival. Since then he has become one of the most acclaimed directors in Europe and the US. His recent productions of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge have won praise from critics and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
Antigone premièred at The Barbican in London before transferring to Luxembourg, Brussels, Paris, Edinburgh, Chicago and New York.
Antigone
Guard
Ismene
Haimon
Teiresias
Créon
Eurydike
Juliette Binoche
Obi Abili
Kirsty Bushell
Samuel Edward-Cook
Finbar Lynch
Patrick O'Kane
Kathryn pogson
Directed by
Written by
Translation by
Decors and Lighting design
Sound design
Costumes
Video installations
Dramaturge
Ivo van Hove
Sophocles
Anne Carson
Jan Versweyveld
Daniel Freitag
An d'Huys
Tal Yarden
Peter van Kraaij
directed by Ivo Van Hove
2015
Juliette Binoche talks about Antigone
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Juliette Binoche, An Edinburgh Festival Portrait
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