Alan Lucien Øyen brought Antigone to the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus for the Athens Epidaurus Festival, placing his reimagining of Sophocles inside an exquisitely preserved historic venue. Across two nights, 10,000 spectators filled the seats. Its legendary acoustics made even the audience's breathing perceptible, producing an intimacy that sat strangely beside the monument's scale.
Åsmund Færavaag's striking set consisted of seven rough wooden walls arranged in a semicircle. Continually reconfigured, they opened passages or sealed the action off, shaping the space with an almost modernist clarity. Instead of retelling the classical drama, Øyen treated it as a frame for the present. Artificial intelligence entered alongside gender-based violence. Capitalist brutality surfaced through ...
