Barbara Wachendorff
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D-68526 Ladenburg

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Director:

Barbara Wachendorff

Concept/Dramaturgy:

Hubert Habig

Composition:

Franz Wittenbrink

Stage:

Motz Tietze

Costumes:

Flavia Stein

Choir direction:

Sabine Dietenberger

Music:

Jutta Glaser

Cello:

Katja Zakotnik

Theatre pedagogy:

Miriam Lemdjadi

Video:

Lukas Raber

Producer:

AK.Theater, Heidelberg

With:

Nele Swanton
Manuel Klein
Lina Zimmer
Gerald Leiß
Maximilian Wex
Helga Karola Wolf
Jutta Glaser
Katja Zakotnik
Ensemble Hendsemer Krischer

and:

Solaf Almusleh, Monika Albicker, Edith
Brandt-Bachmann, Ulla Zellmann-Seyffert,
Natavan Khalikova, Aylar Riazi,
Ali Ismail, Hedwig Sauer-Gürth,
Gertraude Hassel

ANTIGONE – CORONA

Von Sophokles

Tiefburg, Heidelberg

URAUFFÜHRUNG
24. September 2021

Antigone buries her brother Polyneikes, who was killed in the war, although her uncle, King Creon, has forbidden this on pain of death. Antigone is “guilty” of several offences: she violates the ban on burial and contradicts Creon, which alone was a scandal at the time. Creon sentences Antigone to death and justifies his implacability with reasons of state.
The almost 2500-year-old drama is one of the most famous in world literature. For the first time, a woman plays a leading role in the tragedy, albeit portrayed by a man in a mask.
Sophocles, himself a politician in the first democracy of the Greek polis in Athens, used the mythical material to warn against the presumptuous use of power. At the same time, he appeals to the power of insight in the face of obvious injustice.
If we look at the problems of the current Corona crisis through the lens of the ancient tragedy, the timeless aspects of both state crises come to light. Here as there, individual rights and freedoms are in conflict with the laws of the state.
Sequences developed by expert actors in workshops thematise the reference to the Corona crisis in the production.