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.
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.
Cast & creative team
Everything seen on stage and all that goes on behind the scenes is created by students in Production Design and Technical Arts, Set and Costume Design, and Acting, under the guidance of professional guest artists.
Tickets
- Tickets available here.
- Note that all our student shows are FREE. You can support our students' work by making a donation to the National Theatre School (NTS).
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 BélizaireA3
Guard / Messenger
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Juliette DiodatiA3
Euridike
Montréal, QC
Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory
Olaoluwa FayokunA3
Nick
Winnipeg, MB
Treaty 1 Territory
Dylan HawcoA3
Kreon
Cambridge, ON
Haldlmand Treaty, Six Nations of the Grand River
Seeara LindsayA3
Antigone
Pickering, ON
Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation and Williams Treaties signatories of the Mississauga and Chippewa Nation
Fatima LopezA3
Ismene
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Günün a atük and Wallmapu territory
Jessica RoseA3
Teiresias
Kitchener, ON
Traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee Peoples
Mirza SarhanA3
Haimon / Boy
Saudi Arabia / India
CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM - graduating students
Pen TsinSCD3
Costume Designer
(They/Them)
Montreal, QC
Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory
Andrea McMillanPDTA3
Lighting Designer
Châteauguay, QC
Traditional territory of the Kanien'kehà:ka
Matthew LawlerPDTA3
Video Designer
Montréal, QC
Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory
Matt LalondePDTA3
Sound Designer
Waterloo, ON
Traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples
Julia Allehaux VillanoSCD3
Assistant Set Designer
Marines, France
May Nemat AllahPDTA3
Stage Manager
Alexandria, Egypt
Alex SinclairPDTA3
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 CrowtherPDTA3
Technical Director
Lennoxville, QC
Traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki people and the Wabenaki confederacy
Delton KrellerPDTA3
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 Bézie, Margot Bryson, Nila 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.
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