ANTIGONICK
May 2014
Scatterstate Theater, San Jose Historic Armory
Written by Sophocles
Translated by Anne Carson
Direction and Sceneography by Caitlyn Tella
Lighting Design by Sarah Flanagan
Costume Design by Emarie Kohlmoos
Music composed by Yvette Holzwarth
When Antigone buries her brother she joins his rank as a traitor to the state. For her crime, Kreon, uncle and ruler, shuts Antigone in a cave to die slowly and quietly, away from the paralyzed public. But even in death Antigone refuses to submit to her uncle's man-made plans.
Antigonick is Anne Carson’s version of Sophokles’ prizewinning tragedy. Here, Scatterstate presents a layered and spectral trip into the heart of the ancient dialectic between state and family, law and conscience, earth and cosmos. Created by an all-female cast and design team at the Historic San Jose Armory.