When asked about his artistic career, Milo Rau has repeatedly spoken of the way in which his opus can be divided into two different central themes. On the one hand, a set of shows focused in their majority on personal or family issues and on the other, those that he himself defines as “activist” or “optimistic”. Antigone in the Amazon belongs to the latter area of ??his creative geography, as a show with which the Swiss director- who has just been appointed director of the Wiener Festwochen- closes his Trilogy of Ancient Myths, following The Congo Tribunal and Orestes in Mosul. Rau’s journey at the REF continues in the name of a theatre which, drawing from Western classicism, confronts the great themes of our present day. Antigone in the Amazon was created, not surprisingly, in the Brazilian state of Parà. Together with the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), professional and non-professional actors and involving indigenous populations, Rau transports the Greek tragedy there, using it as an allegorical tool to contemplate the consequences produced by the conflict between uncontrolled development and the ancestral owners of Earth.
CONCEPTION & DIRECTION
Milo Rau
TEXT
Milo Rau & cast
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
WITH
Frederico Araujo
Sara De Bosschere
Pablo Casella
Arne De Tremerie
IN VIDEO
Kay Sara
Gracinha Donato
Célia Marácajá
and the Chorus of Militants of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – MST and, in the role of Tiresia, Ailton Krenak
DRAMATURGY
Giacomo Bisordi
DRAMATURGY COLLABORATION
Martha Kiss Perrone, Douglas Estevam da Silva
DRAMATURGY ASSISTANTS
Kaatje De Geest, Carmen Hornbostel
COLLABORATION ON CONCEPTION, RESEARCH AND DRAMATURGY
Eva-Maria Bertschy
VIDEO
Moritz von Dungern
MUSIC
Elia Rediger
Pablo Casella
SCENOGRAPHY
Anton Lukas
COSTUMES
Gabriela Cherubini, Jo De Visscher, Anton Lukas
LIGHTS
Dennis Diels
VIDEO MAKING OF AND MUSIC VIDEO CLIP
Fernando Nogari
VIDEO EDITING
Joris Vertenten
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Katelijne Laevens
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
Chara Kasaraki, Lotte Mellaerts
PRODUCTION RESPONSIBILITY
Gabriela Gonçalves, Klaas Lievens
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Jack Dos Santos
TECHNICAL MANAGER
Oliver Houttekiet
STAGE MANAGER
Marijn Vlaeminck
THANKS TO
Carolina Bufolin
PRODUCTION
NTGent
COPRODUCTION
International Institute of Political Murder – IIPM, Festival D’Avignon, Romaeuropa Festival, Manchester International Festival, La Villette (Paris), Tandem (Arras-Douai), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt), Equinoxe – Scène Nationale (Châteauroux), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna)
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Goethe Institut – São Paulo, PRO HELVETIA program COINCIDENCIA – Cultural Exchanges between Switzerland and Latin America, The Belgian Tax Shelter
Photo
@kurt van der elst
@Armin Smailovic
