ANTIGONICK

Laëtitia Pitz takes up Antigone in its rewriting by the Canadian poet Anne Carson. In a text where the gods no longer intervene in the course of history, Antigone’s fate becomes all the more poignant as it echoes, for us spectators of this troubled twenty-first century, the only question that truly matters: how can we remain faithful to our humanity when doing so may put our lives at risk?

With Antigonick, Laëtitia Pitz shapes a figure that is at once archaic and modern. Behind the conflict between Creon and Antigone, she allows us to see and hear a more intimate story: that of a family destroyed from within by the violence of power. Antigone, who persists against all odds in burying her dead, embodies the irreducible bonds that unite us beyond the rationalized demands of human society.

On stage, three actresses constantly shift from one role to another, offering us an Antigone who alternately appears and disappears, both unreachable and within arm’s reach. At the same time, the musical ensemble conceived by the Norwegian composer Christian Wallumrød moves between echoes of early music and electronic eruptions, elegiac and visceral, carrying the text even as it follows its own path.