Goucher Senior Theatre Students Present "Antigone"

April 13, 2010 |

Eleven senior theatre students at Goucher College have formed their own theatre company, All Hands on Stage, to produce a modern adaptation of the ancient Greek play Antigone.

The students have imagined and created all aspects of the production, including set design and soundscape, lobby display, and costume designs, and each student has an acting role, a production assignment, and a dramaturgical project.

Performances will be held in the Mildred Dunnock Theatre at 8 p.m. from Tuesday, April 13, through Friday, April 16, and at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 17.

Tickets are $9 general admission and $5 for Goucher students, faculty, and staff with an ID. To reserve a seat, please contact the Mildred Dunnock Box Office at 410-337-6512. For a campus map, see http://www.goucher.edu/documents/GoucherCampusMap.pdf.

For more information, contact All Hands On Stage press representative Alison Andersen at Alison.Andersen@mail.goucher.edu or visit the Antigone Website: http://antigonesrproj.ning.com/.

Antigone tells the story of a girl who defies her ruler for the sake of a brother and what she believes to be right. Sophocles wrote his play in 442 B.C.E. Greece, and it has been revised and retold many times. Bertolt Brecht adapted Antigone for production in East Berlin in 1947, and Judith Malina of the Living Theatre in New York City created her translation of Brecht’s play in 1966.

All Hands On Stage will now collaborate with other Goucher students to tell their own version of Brecht’s Antigone, drawing upon their ideas and beliefs about life, theatre, and collaboration.

All Hands On Stage will also host post-performance “talk-backs,” featuring faculty panelists addressing issues inspired by Antigone that are still relevant in today’s world. These panels will raise issues such as war, violence, loyalty, and duty, while evaluating theatre and its ability to instigate change.