Slavoj Žižek
The Triple Life of Antigone
Anton Podbevšek Teater, in co-operation with Cankarjev dom Ljubljana
Crew
Director: Matjaž Berger
Dramaturgs: Stojan Pelko and Andreja Kopač
Stage designer: Miran Mohar
Costume designers: Peter Movrin and Metod Črešnar
Music: Peter Penko
Choreographer: Jana Menger
Cast
Petra Govc
Pavle Ravnohrib
Aleš Valič
Borut Veselko
Janez Hočevar
Klara Kastelec
Joseph Nzobandora
Jana Menger
Lana Voljč
About the performance
How many times have you said to yourself how good it would be if you could turn back time – and change the course of events after you find out how things turned out the first time? And how many times did you wish you could do that, not with your own life, but with the fate of one of the literary or film characters? Slavoj Žižek did not hesitate for a moment when he did that very thing with Antigone, the paradigmatic character from the eponymous tragedy written by Sophocles. Dissatisfied with her ex-ante mythologisation of her own gesture of burying her brother’s body, Žižek turned the course of events around twice – and arrived at two attempts to change the social order in the 20th century: the fascist rule of the masses and the communist rule of the high class avant-garde.
The sad story of Antigone teaches us
that even if we could miraculously go back in time
in order to turn around the course of events
which have led to this mayhem,
the new turn of events might actually
surpass the old one in dismay and despair
When you are deciding whether it’s harder to be an Antigone-like dissenting rebel or a Creon-like regime ruler, you will quickly find yourself fatefully alone. But if you listen carefully to the Chorus, you may intuit a community that is bound by a bond stronger than fate. And then, when the lights go down and the voices fade away, when we are all alone and nothing is happening, we are suddenly hit by the murmurs of life.
Stojan Pelko
Première: 11 April 2017
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