Antigonick

From December 12th to 16th, 2023

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ANTIGONICK

By: Sophokles
Translated by: Anne Carson
Director: Ruth Madoc-Jones (Acting, 1993)
Movement director: James Viveiros (Residencies, 2023)

The 2024 graduating class of the English Section presents Antigonick, Anne Carson’s stunning translation of Sophokles’s luminous and disturbing tragedy, given entirely fresh language and new life.

Audience disclaimer: Antigonick touches on intense subjects, including war, suicide, and death.

Dates & location

  • From December 12 to 15, 2023 at 7:30pm
  • December 16, 2023 at 1:00 pm

Duration: 1h15

Ludger-Duvernay Theatre,
Monument-National Campus
(St-Laurent metro)
1182 Saint-Laurent, Montréal

The show is in English.

Cast & creative team

Everything seen on stage and all that goes on behind the scenes is created by students in Production Design and Technical ArtsSet and Costume Design, and Acting, under the guidance of professional guest artists.

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A Word From the Director, Ruth Madoc-Jones (Acting, 1993)

‘oh sister and daughter of Oidipous, 
Who can be innocent dealing with you 
There was never a blank slate…’ 
Anne Carson, Antigonick, 2012

The above quote is from Anne Carson’s play text introduction regarding her task of adapting Antigonick. Carson is a classicist and poet who reads Greek, so her adaptation is based on the original. From this, she edits the play to its dramatic core, invents language (noonsunstink), plays with the Greek (bebarbarbizmenized)*, jolts us into the present with anachronisms of 20th-century philosophers, and rejigs Antigone’s name to connect with the mysterious ever-present ‘Nick’ (time); all to re-present and disturb the well-known myth.  

The quote struck me as I imagined this play on stage with an audience. Even if we don’t know the story of Antigone directly, we can all connect, I believe, with her struggle for justice despite her fatal absolutism, which is a rare (at times questionable) quality shared by only the most courageous. We know who they are. Carson’s language is at the forefront of this work, and as artists, we lean into it to find the heart beating underneath. It is a verse that travels from late Victorian formality to the present to tell the story, asking you, the audience, to lean in to hear the voice of this young person who dares to confront unjust authority. It is an echo we hear today on our streets.  

* Carson’s “Bebarbarizmenized” “translates” Sophokles’ βεβαρβαρωμένῳ (bebarbarōmenōi), a term that derives from the word βάρβαρος (barbaros, whence “barbarian”), an onomatopoeia that Greeks applied to anyone who didn’t speak intelligible Greek. Kinnucan. M, Hypocrite Reader, 2012 https://hypocritereader.com/18/untimely-translations 

Team

CAST - graduating students

Nora BarkerA3
Chorus Leader 
Grand Falls-Windsor, NL 
Ktaqmkuk, traditional Beothuk & Mi'kmaw territory 

 


Bénédicte Bélizaire
A3
Guard / Messenger 
Port-au-Prince, Haiti 

 


Juliette Diodati
A3
Euridike 
Montréal, QC 
Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory 

 


Olaoluwa Fayokun
A3
Nick 
Winnipeg, MB 
Treaty 1 Territory 

  


Dylan Hawco
A3
Kreon 
Cambridge, ON 
Haldlmand Treaty, Six Nations of the Grand River 

 


Seeara Lindsay
A3
Antigone 
Pickering, ON 
Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation and Williams Treaties signatories of the Mississauga and Chippewa Nation
 

 


Fatima Lopez
A3
Ismene 
Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Günün a atük and Wallmapu territory 

 


Jessica Rose
A3
Teiresias 
Kitchener, ON 
Traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee Peoples 

  


Mirza Sarhan
A3
Haimon / Boy
 Saudi Arabia / India 

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM - graduating students


Pen Tsin
SCD3
Costume Designer 
(They/Them) 
Montreal, QC 
Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory 

 


Andrea McMillan
PDTA3
Lighting Designer 
Châteauguay, QC  
Traditional territory of the Kanien'kehà:ka 

 


Matthew Lawler
PDTA3
Video Designer 
Montréal, QC  
Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory

 


Matt Lalonde
PDTA3
Sound Designer 
Waterloo, ON  
Traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples

 


Julia Allehaux VillanoSCD3
Assistant Set Designer 
Marines, France 

 


May Nemat Allah
PDTA3
Stage Manager 
Alexandria, Egypt 

 


Alex Sinclair
PDTA3
Production Manager 
Saint John, NB 
Menaquesk, unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Wabanaki (Dawnland Confederacy), the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kma’ki, Abenaki and the Passamaquoddy 

 


Bea Crowther
PDTA3
Technical Director 
Lennoxville, QC  
Traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki people and the Wabenaki confederacy
 

 


Delton Kreller
PDTA3
Assistant Technical Director 
Brandon, MB 
Treaty 2

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM - professionals

Ruth Madoc-Jones (Acting, 1993)
Director 

   

James Viveiros (Residencies, 2023)
Movement Director  

 

Fernando Maya Meneses (Set and Costume Design, 2023) 
Set Designer  

 

Siloé Melançon (Création et production, 2023)
Assistant to the Costume Designer 

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM - students

Nezren Pittoors-McMahonPDTA2 
Assistant Lighting Designer 

 

Joao VelosoPDTA1
Associate ATD 

 

Eiden FrenchPDTA2 
Head Carpenter 

 

Nico NogueraPDTA1
Assistant Stage Manager 

 

Max MalfaraPDTA1
Assistant Stage Manager 

Alex JoycePDTA2
Head of Lighting 

Elizabeth PageNP
Head of Sound 

Zoe DacaPDTA2 
Head of Video 

 

Amy CuthbertsonPDTA1 
Head of Flies, Carpenter 

 

Sephora N'KosiPDTA1 
Lighting Assistant, Carpenter  

Dani RoyerPDTA1
Video Assistant, Carpenter 

Katie WebbPDTA1
Sound Assistant, Carpenter 

Tiphaine BézieMargot BrysonNila Dutton, Daria Famili, Maya Padlewska, Angeles Silva Lizarraga, Simone Turcotte, and Mégan Vallée SCD1 
Costume and scenic paint assistance 

Nila DuttonSCD1 and Angeles Silva LizarragaSCD1
Dressers 
  
 
  
 
 
 

COACHES

Andrea Lundy 
Production Management Coach and Program Director 

 

Michelle Ramsay 
Lighting Design Coach 

 

Rob Denton 
Sound Design Coach 

Cameron Davis 
Video Design Coach 

 

Hannah Fisher (Set and Costume Deign, 2019)
Costume Design Coach 

 

Autumn Coppaway 
Technical Direction Coach 

 

Theresa Tsang 
Stage Management Coach 

 

Rebecca Harper 
Head of Movement 

 

Jonathan Patterson 
Head of Music 

 

Nancy Benjamin 
Voice Coach 

 

Anita Nittoli 
Fight Director 

 

Sue Williams 
Production Dramaturge 

 

Marjorie Lefebvre 
Technical Coach 

 

Tim Rodrigues (Production Design and Technical Arts, 2006)
Head Electrician 

 

Bianca Bernier 
Head of Sound 

 

Jérémie Bérubé 
Head Carpenter 

 

Guillaume Simard (Création et production, 2010)
Head of Carpentry  

 

​​Christian Larochelle 
Assistant Carpenter 

 

Veronique Pagnoux 
Scenic Painter 

 

Angela Rassenti (Set and Costume Design, 2008)
Head of Props 

 

Mayumi Ide-Bergeron (Set and Costume Design, 2021)
Wardrobe Storage

 

Julia Metzger and Michael Slack (Set and Costume Design, 2001)
Heads of Wardrobe

Alain Spooner
Cutter

Raphaëlle Rieu, Marie-Hélène Gervais, Floriane Vachon and Charlotte Allard
Seamstresses

Hugue Auguste
Costume Intern

Charlie Loup Turcot (Création et production, 2020)
Eco Project Manager 

Réjean Forget
Hair Styling Consultant

Florence Cornet
Makeup Coach

Margarita Brodie (Set and Costume Design, 2020)
Patina Consultant

Iohseriio Polson
Bone Treatment Consultant

Ainsley Meloche
Beading Specialist

Julie Caron
Millinery Coach

Floriane Vachon
Head Dresser

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Elizabeth Koubena.

ANTIGONICK is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The land on which we are gathered has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. It is part of the traditional unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka, whose rich cultural heritage continues to teach us that respect, dialogue and peace are pillars of democratic governance.

Antigonick Company Call to Action

In the spirit of solidarity with the urban Indigenous community, we invite you to donate, if you have the capacity, to Montreal’s Native Friendship Centre. In the spirit of solidarity with Indigenous peoples on stolen and colonially occupied territory beyond Turtle Island, we also invite you to donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

MTL Native Friendship Centre

PCRF

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