Winter Guests / Alan Lucien OeyenNO

Antigone is a radical reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy, merging the physical poetry of Tanztheater with spoken word and original text. At a time when diplomacy falters, conflicts rage and leaders justify oppressive laws to maintain power, Øyen’s production feels strikingly contemporary: an urgent meditation on conscience and dignity in the face of law and violence. On stage, winter guests collaborators perform alongside longtime artists from Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. Movement and speech trade weight within a stark amphitheatre of seven wooden walls, transformed by live-camera images. Visceral, political without didacticism and deeply human, Antigone asks what it means to act when law and justice part ways, calling us to recognise our shared humanity.