Roberto Latini presents an intense and contemporary reinterpretation of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, transforming the myth into a universal reflection on the conflict between law and conscience, between justice and humanity.
Antigone is a figure who spans the centuries and belongs to the destiny of theatre throughout the ages. An archetype who questions us, listens to us, accompanies us. In this version, Anouilh does not rewrite the tragedy: he writes its voice. A voice that is close to us, that breathes with us, that speaks of us.
Two-time Ubu Prize winner Roberto Latini constructs a show as a soliloquy with multiple voices, where each character is a mirror of the other, where Antigone and Creon reflect each other, exchange places, mirror each other. It is a theatre of questions, not answers: should laws regulate life, or should life regulate laws?
Beyond the boundaries of identity and gender, this Antigone becomes a body-chorus, a collective voice, a nostalgia for life. Because that unburied body is us, still alive.
A secular and necessary ritual, in which every spectator can recognise themselves, taking away questions to slip into the pockets of time. At the theatre, once again, to choose who we want to be: men or humans.