Juliette Binoche-Led ANTIGONE Begins Tonight at BAM

Beginning tonight, Sep 24, and running through Oct 4, 2015, Anne Carson's new translation of ANTIGONE by Sophokles, starring Juliette Binoche in the title role, runs as part of BAM's 2015 Next Wave Festival. The production plays the BAM Harvey Theater, presented by the Barbican and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and directed by Ivo van Hove.

Should love or law guarantee the dignity of the dead? With unvarnished intensity, Oscar-winning actor Juliette Binoche (In-I, 2009 Next Wave), Olivier-winning director Ivo van Hove (Angels in America, 2014 Next Wave), and poet and MacArthur fellow Anne Carson-offering a new colloquial translation-pare Sophokles' great question to the tragic bone. In Thebes, Antigone has refuted King Kreon's (Patrick O'Kane) order: that her traitorous brother's body be left to rot outside the city gates. Vast monochrome videoscapes of sun and moon, sand and snow provide the backdrop to Van Hove's taut, unsentimental account of a woman who, as removed from life as she is from death, ends up taking both into her own hands.

The creative team includes: Set design and lighting by Jan Versweyveld; Costume design by An d'Huys; Video design by Tal Yarden; Dramaturgy by Peter van Kraaij; Composition and sound design by Daniel Freitag.

Produced in association with Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Co-produced by Edinburgh International Festival, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen.

For more information, visit www.bam.org/theater/2015/antigone.