13.05.23 10.06.23

Antigone in the Amazon Milo Rau / NTGent

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Milo Rau creates a political Antigone for the 21st century, together with indigenous people, activists and actors from Brazil and Europe.
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€15 - 28

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✔ EN, PT, TUCANO spoken
✔ DUTCH, EN surtitles
✔ Thanks to our Theatre Tablet you can also enjoy (from 07/06):
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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


credits

musician

Elisabeth de Loore, Pablo Casella

text

Milo Rau & ensemble

concept & direction

Milo Rau

dramaturgy

Giacomo Bisordi

dramaturgical collaboration

Douglas Estevam, Martha Kiss Perrone, Kaatje De Geest

music composition

Elia Rediger

set design

Anton Lukas

costume design

Anton Lukas, An De Mol

light design

Dennis Diels

video design

Moritz von Dungern

direction assistant

Katelijne Laevens

assistance direction assistance

Chara Kasaraki, Lotte Melaerts

production management

Klaas Lievens

technical production management

Oliver Houttekiet

stage manager

Marijn Vlaeminck

production

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 Festwochen

in 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
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TOON MINDER
credits

musician

Elisabeth de Loore, Pablo Casella

text

Milo Rau & ensemble

concept & direction

Milo Rau

dramaturgy

Giacomo Bisordi

dramaturgical collaboration

Douglas Estevam, Martha Kiss Perrone, Kaatje De Geest

music composition

Elia Rediger

set design

Anton Lukas

costume design

Anton Lukas, An De Mol

light design

Dennis Diels

video design

Moritz von Dungern

direction assistant

Katelijne Laevens

assistance direction assistance

Chara Kasaraki, Lotte Melaerts

production management

Klaas Lievens

technical production management

Oliver Houttekiet

stage manager

Marijn Vlaeminck

production

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 Festwochen

in 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

TICKETS

Saturday 13 May 2023
20:00
NTGent Schouwburg
Tuesday 16 May 2023
20:00
NTGent Schouwburg
Wednesday 17 May 2023
20:00
NTGent Schouwburg
Friday 9 June 2023
20:00
NTGent Schouwburg
Saturday 10 June 2023
20:00
NTGent Schouwburg

ON TOUR

Friday 19 May 2023
20u00
Amsterdam (ITA-Grote Zaal)
Saturday 20 May 2023
20u00
Amsterdam (ITA-Grote Zaal)
Sunday 21 May 2023
15u00
Amsterdam (ITA-Grote Zaal)
Thursday 25 May 2023
0u00
Wenen (Wiener Festwochen at Burgtheater)
Friday 26 May 2023
0u00
Wenen (Wiener Festwochen at Burgtheater)
Saturday 27 May 2023
0u00
Wenen (Wiener Festwochen at Burgtheater)
Thursday 01 June 2023
0u00
Frankfurt (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm)
Friday 02 June 2023
0u00
Frankfurt (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm)
Saturday 03 June 2023
0u00
Frankfurt (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm)
Tuesday 13 June 2023
19u30
Douai/Arras (Tandem Scène Nationale)
Wednesday 14 June 2023
20u30
Douai/Arras (Tandem Scène Nationale)
Saturday 17 June 2023
20u00
Rotterdam (Schouwburg-Grote Zaal)
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