Antigone, the Greek heroine, walks the streets of today's agitated Athens, demonstrating and protesting with the people. She is indignant, perhaps.
The stories they tell us often have more to do with our own reality than we might think. The theatre company Motus believes that Antigone, the heroine who disobeyed Creon and buried her brother, has much in common with the rebellious attitudes of young people today. This story revolves around the protests organised after the death of a youth, Alexandros-Andreas Grigoropoulos, Alexis, at the hands of the police in 2008. In the play, classical texts are fused with sound and visual documents recorded in the Athens of our times, seeking the spirit of Antigone in the modern world. That “A” in a circle, painted on the wall: does it stand for Anarchy or, perhaps, Antigone?
Along with “Too Late!”, “Alexis. A Greek Tragedy” forms part of “Syrma Antigones”, a project that draws an imaginary cartography of the sense of revolt. Sophocles’ heroine, in the Brecht interpretation, is the guide on this itinerary through which the Italian company tackles the question of how to transform indignation into action. Antigone stands as symbol of integrity and struggle against merciless power, an icon of the protest movements, which began in Greece, that were awakened by economic crisis throughout Europe.
Concepció i direcció: Daniela Nicolò, Enrico Casagrande; Intèrprets: Silvia Calderoni, Vladimir Aleksic, Benno Steinegger, Alexandra Sarantopoulou (amb la col·laboració de Michalis Traitsis i Giorgina Pilozzi) ; Assistència a la direcció: Nicolas Lehnebach; Dramatúrgia: Daniela Nicolò; Edició de vídeo: Enrico Casagrande; So: Andrea Comandini; Música: Pyrovolismos sto prosop, per The Boy. Al vídeo, Nikos, del Centro Libertario Nosotros, Stavros, de la banda Deux Ex Machina; Il·luminació i escenografia: Enrico Casagrande, Daniela Nicolò; Direcció tècnica: Valeria Foti; Producció executiva local: Factoria Escènica Internacional (FEI);
