Anti at Gesher Theatre

Dates: (7/11/2013 - 7/13/2013 )

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Gesher Theatre

Yerushalaim Blvd.
Tel-Aviv - Jaffa,Tel Aviv 68114

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This is the story of Oedipus's daughter, Antigone (Ruth Rasiuk), whose two brothers killed each other. One brother was buried as a hero while the other was declared an enemy of the people and his body was left prey to the vultures. Creon (Shmuel Vilozhny), the town's ruler and Antigone's uncle, forbade any approach to the body and ordered the execution of anyone trying to cover or bury it. Antigone buries her brother with his childhood spade, knowing full well she is destined to die.

Anti is the story of a young girl challenging the law and following her heart, who like her father throws herself into the arms of cruel fate, risking the lives of her fiancé, her sister and everything dear to her, in her rebellion against law and order. The renowned French playwright Jean Anouilh decided in 1944, in the wake of the First World War, to write a modern version of Sophocles' classic Greek play "Antigone". He speeded up the rhythm, "cleaned up" the pathos in the speech and emphasized the human-political and personal-collective conflicts. The scenes between Antigone and her sister, her lover, her nurse and her uncle, evoke the image of a modern adolescent, rebellious and forceful, emotional and pure, who wants everything here and now, thus enabling both young and old audiences to identify absolutely with this immortal tragedy.

The Gesher theatre has put on a grand poetical production, not of a long-lost world and reality, but of our vibrant world. The poignant deliberation between a ruler and a young girl forces us to take sides, which is no simple matter. Our lives today lack a cause worth dying for. But perhaps the turmoil of our times may still bring about the upheaval of conventions by a brave young person.

Cast and Creative team for Anti at Gesher Theatre

Translation : Roee Chen
Director : Yevgeny Arye
Set design and costumes : Michael Kramenko
Music : Avi Benjamin
Lighting Design : Igor Kapustin (Estonia)
Dramaturge : Katya Sassonsky
Assistant director for voice and speech : Yonny Lucas
Assistant director : Sasha Kreindlin

Antigone: Ruth Rasiuk
Creon: Shmuel Vilozhny
Chorus: Israel (Sasha) Demidov
Nurse: Lilian Ruth
Hemon: Henri David
Ismene: Karin Seruya
Guard 1: Shir Shenar
Guard 2: Michael Rivkin
Guard 3: Alexander Toropovsky
Secretary: Bar Sade
Creon's entourage: Vitaly Fux, Gur Koren, Paolo Eduardo Moura, David Ziselson
Musicians: Ori Yaniv, Ilia Miagkih, Yair Slutzki
Children: Philip Dolev, Eden Grinberg, Avishay Bukish, Yuval Kruchenetzky

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