Antigone: As Played & Danced By Three Fates On the Way to Becoming Three Graces
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 2, 2004
Closed May 23, 2004
Opened May 2, 2004
Closed May 23, 2004
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
What might the Antigone tale look like before Sophocles got his hands on it? This tantalizing thought animates Mac Wellman's wild rendition of this immortal story. Here events happen eons before Sophocles, Doric columns, or Democracy. There's song, dance breaks, and three nasty girls who go by the name of the Fates but hope, in the retelling of this myth, to become Graces. What ensues is Wellman's renowned brand of verbal pyrotechnics coupled with the inimitable images of choreographer Annie-B Parson and director Paul Lazar's Big Dance Theater.
No matinees on May 9 or May 22
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With Mac Wellman, you never know what you'll be getting. Apparently, his Antigone treatment, created by Big Dance Theater, was so baffling when it recently toured non-English-speaking countries that director Paul Lazar had to reassure patrons before the dance-theater piece began that they were not about to see a production of Sophocles's relatively straightforward tragedy; rather, they would be exposed to a version of the myth based on an earlier approach in which the Three Fates deliver the report. It's implied that this run-up occurred before the Aristotelian unities were codified and subsequently honored.
Well, guess what? Lazar's still giving that brief speech to English-speaking audien[...]