Antigone in the Amazon
Armin Smailovic
Surtitling in German or Dutch+
Flemish Sign Language
Audiodescription (Dutch)For Antigone in the Amazon, Milo Rau and his team traveled to the Brazilian state of Pará, where the forests burn due to the expanding soy monocultures and where nature gets devoured by capitalism. On an occupied piece of land, in collaboration with MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra), the world’s largest landless workers’ movement, they create an allegorical play about the violent devastations and displacements caused by the modern state, which places private property above the traditional right to land.
In 2020 the creation process was interrupted due to the corona pandemic: the team had to return from Brazil in the midst of rehearsals. In the spring of 2023 it will travel back and finish the production to finally present the premiere of Antigone in the Amazon in the season of 22-23.
After the productions Orestes in Mosul in the former capital of the Islamic State and the Jesus film The New Gospel in the southern Italian refugee camps, Milo Rau and his team travel to the Amazon in Brazil to conclude their Trilogy of Ancient Myths.
The intellectual renewal will not come from the gated communities where the authoritarian neoliberalism emerged. The philosophy of the coming era will come from the forests, from the favelas and the banlieues, from occupied houses and monocultures.Milo Rau
cast
- Arne De Tremerie
- Frederico Araujo
- Kay Sara
- Sara De Bosschere
credits
musician
Elisabeth de Loore, Pablo Casellatext
Milo Rau & ensembleconcept & direction
Milo Raudramaturgy
Giacomo Bisordidramaturgical collaboration
Douglas Estevam, Martha Kiss Perrone, Kaatje De Geestmusic composition
Elia Redigerset design
Anton Lukascostume design
Anton Lukas, An De Mollight design
Dennis Dielsvideo design
Moritz von Dungerndirection assistant
Katelijne Laevensassistance direction assistance
Chara Kasaraki, Lotte Melaertsproduction management
Klaas Lievenstechnical production management
Oliver Houttekietstage manager
Marijn Vlaeminckproduction
NTGent, The International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM)coproduction
Romaeuropa Festival, Manchester International Festival, La Vilette Parijs, Tandem Arras Douai, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Equinoxe Scène Nationale Châteauroux, Wiener Festwochenin collaboration with
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST)with support of
Goethe Institut Saõ Paulo, PRO HELVETIA programme COINCIDENCIA - Kulturaustausch Schweiz - Südamerika, The Belgian Tax Shelter
NEWS
- 27 Jan 23 — Monocle (radio/podcast) - '2023 on the stage' (vermelding 'Antigone in de Amazone')
- 27 Jan 23 — DW - 'Oproep tot inheems verzet: Milo Rau's Antigone in het Amazonegebied' ('Antigone in de Amazone')
- 26 Jan 23 — DW (DUI) - 'Oproep tot inheems verzet: Milo Rau's Antigone in de Amazone'
- 9 Jan 23 — VRT - 'NTGent opent jaar met producties vol talent van eigen bodem: "Acteurs van absolute wereldklasse"
- 18 Jun 1818 — Het Nieuwsblad (Gent) - "Nieuwe seizoen NTGent oogt opvallend Gents: jonge theatermakers en acteurs krijgen kansen"
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