VIDEO: New York Times In Performance: Juliette Binoche Stars in BAM's ANTIGONE
By: Caryn Robbins Oct. 01, 2015
This week's New York Time's In Performance video features Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche in a scene from Sophocles' ANTIGONE which opened on Sunday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and runs through Oct 4, 2015.
Anne Carson's new translation of ANTIGONE plays the BAM Harvey Theater, presented by the Barbican and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and is directed by Ivo van Hove.
Should love or law guarantee the dignity of the dead? 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.
Source: New York Times
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