Theodor Herzl High School is presenting Jean Anouilh's Antigone, directed by award-winning director Robin Williams and featuring a team largely comprised of the same actors and creatives who impressed Bay theatre lovers with last year’s award-winning musical, Blood Brothers. Antigone stars Kasvia von Memerty as Antigone, Megan Potgieter as Creon and Reinhardt Malherbe as Chorus. Lighting design is by Magnetic Storm’s David Limbert and the sets by Brad Sharp, Janice Mendelowitz and Theodor Herzl pupils.
Seating will, unusually, be arranged around the acting space at the Savoy Theatre in Adcockvale. Williams said this would make for a very intimate theatre experience, with only 90 seats per show – and only five shows to be staged. Antigone is an adaptation of Sophocles' tragic play of the same title. It is widely acknowledged as one of the 100 stories that changed the world.Written in 1942, when Nazi forces occupied France, the story revolves around the conflict between the idealist Antigone and her master-strategist dictator uncle Creon over the proper burial of Antigone's brother, Polynices. Antigone is considered the first protest play and was popular during SA’s own struggle; it was also a favourite of Nelson Mandela’s. The fact that Antigone, as the world’s first resistance fighter, is a woman, is particularly meaningful as Women’s Month is under way. Shows are from Saturday to Wednesday August 11 to 15 at 7.30pm and on Sunday August 12 at 2.30pm (no evening show). Tickets are R80 (adults) and R50 (pensioners). Bookings are at Theodor Herzl High School on 041-584-244 – ask for Angela Kennedy.