Antigone
-Co-Sound Designer/Composer/Music Director
@Montreal (2015)
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Translated by Lynn Kozak
Directed by Andreas Apergis Music Direction/Sound Design: Joseph Browne and Evan Stepanian Chorus Masters: Gabriel Frank and Katie Krawczyk Video Designer: Philipe Blanchette Stage Manager: Julie Foster Assistant Director: Anthony Kennedy Assistant Stage Managers: Michelle Soicher and Patricia Moore Design Supervisor: Amy Keith Set Designer: Darah Miah Assistant Set Designer: Michelle Lam Lighting Designer: Luz Lucila Tapia Assistant Lighting Designer: Sadrina Sparagna Costume Designer: Zoe Roux-McKean Assistant Costume: Öykü Önder and Caitlin Ross Properties Designer: Iman Corbani Assitant Properties: Marie Michelle Castonguay and Helena Roy Magee
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"Musically striking..."
—Jim Burke @FunhouseTheatre Joseph Browne and Evan Stepanian composed, directed and performed original music for 14 voices to the chorus of a new translation of Sophocles' ancient play Antigone.
Director Andreas Apergis' version of the play is set in modern day world, highlighting the timely themes for a contemporary audience. After the Theban civil war, where the sons of Oedipus have died fighting each other for the throne, King Kreon decides to honour one of the brothers with burial rites and leave the other to rot on the battle field, unmourned. Antigone, their surviving sister, challenges Kreon’s edict, claiming she follows the gods whose authority is beyond the state’s rule. A contest of wills ensues between Kreon and Antigone as they fight over what to do with the body of the fallen brother who attacked the city. Their conflict is also one between generations, between rule of law and civil disobedience, between man and woman, young and old, the state and the individual and religious and political extremism. |