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Antigone

​September 18 - October 3, 2015

Antigone - Alumnae Theatre Company
Antigone
by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lewis Galantiere
September 18-October 3, 2015


Directed by Janet Kish and Produced by Andrea Patreau
Movement Direction by Jane Deluzio


This provocative adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honour, treachery and fateful consequences.

​Jean Anouilh’s modernized version uses the classic Greek tragedy Antigone to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of our times.
CAST
Chorus          AMANDA CORDNER
Antigone      KAYA BUCHOLC
Ismene         CARLY TELFORD
Haemon       CHRISTOPHER OSZWALD
Creon            SCOTT MOORE
Page              CHRISTINA LEONARD
Nurse            SARA STAHMER *
Guards          ERIK MRAKOVCIC
                        RENEE AWOTWI
                        PATRICK FOWLER
Eurydice       MARTHA BREEN
Messenger   PATRICK FOWLER

* appears with the permission of Canadian Actors' Equity Association
CREATIVE/PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Janet Kish
P
roducer: Andrea Patreau
Associate Producer: Carina Cojeen
Stage Manager: Christina Clarke
Assistant Stage Manager: Kaylen MacKenzie
Movement Direction:Jane Deluzio

Scenographer: Teodoro Dragonieri
Lighting Design by Kelsey Laine Jacobson
Costume Design by Martina Christensen and Brianne Christensen
Sound Design by Jeff Jones
Scenic Artist: Sara Ahmadieh Rad
Makeup Artist:  Eleanor MacVeigh
SPECIAL EVENTS

Art Installation:  We invite you to peruse our Antigone themed art installation created by the renowned multi-discipline artist Teodoro Dragonieri in collaboration with Sara Ahmadieh Rad.  This exhibition in the Alumnae Theatre's lobby will be up for the run of the show.

Opening Night Reception:  Meet the actors and production team in the lobby at the end of the show on opening night - Friday, September 18th.  Light refreshments will be served.

Social Media Night: On Saturday, September 19th, we invite our audiences sitting in the last three rows of the house to text, tweet and send messages via Facebook about and during the performance. No flash photography, please.

Women of Courage: In the spirit of Antigone, you are invited to join us at 12 noon on Sunday, September 20th for our pre-matinee panel discussion introducing you to six ordinary women who have exhibited extraordinary courage.  Moderated by Alumnae Member Marinka Yossifon, guest panelists include:
Meagan Tuck - singer and actor living as an amputee
Rachel Lauren Clarke - trans-woman and LGBTQ activist
Tessa Hill and Lia Valente - 14 year old sex education activists (“We Give Consent”)
Tasvinder Kaur - exiting from an arranged marriage
Andrea Patreau - overcoming mental illness.
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  • HOME
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    • CURRENT SEASON >
      • Female of the Species 2022
      • Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike 2023
      • String of Pearls 2023
      • FireWorks Festival 2022
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    • PREVIOUS SEASONS >
      • 2021/22 SEASON >
        • Albertine in Five Times
        • Nested
        • In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
        • New Ideas Festival 2022 >
          • NIF 2022 Master Classes
          • NIF 2022 Talks
          • NIF 2022 Short Plays >
            • B to Z
            • Joule's Odyssey
            • Cancel Culture
            • The Do-Gooders
          • NIF 2022 Workshops
      • 2020/21 Season >
        • New Ideas Festival >
          • New Ideas Festival 2021 WEEK 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2021 WEEK 2
      • 2019/20 Season >
        • The Heidi Chronicles
        • FireWorks Festival >
          • Belle Darling Klondike Queen
          • Grief Circus
          • If the Shoe Fits
        • The Trip to Bountiful
        • New Ideas Festival 2020
        • New Ideas Festival 2020 WEEK 1
      • 2018/19 Season >
        • The Importance of Being Earnest
        • Fireworks Festival 2018 >
          • The Pigeon
          • Moving On
          • Animal
        • Top Girls
        • New Ideas Festival 2019 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 3
        • Impressionism
        • News - 100 Year Open House 2018
      • 100th Anniversary 2017/18 Season >
        • Thirteen Hands
        • FireWorks Festival 2017 >
          • This Will Be Our Last Transmission
          • Surrender, Dorothy
          • GASH
        • Omission
        • New Ideas Festival 2018 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 3
          • 2018 Reading Series
        • Queen Marie
      • 2016/17 Season >
        • THIS
        • FireWorks Festival 2016 >
          • Inked Heart
          • Motherland
        • The Gut Girls
        • New Ideas Festival 2017 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 1
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        • The Clean House >
          • The Creases In My Sari
      • 2015/16 Season >
        • Antigone
        • FireWorks Festival 2015 >
          • Divine Wrecks
          • Cottage Radio
          • Radical
          • Playwright Intensive 2015
        • Stepping Out
        • New Ideas Festival 2016 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 1
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        • August: Osage County
      • 2014/15 Season >
        • Escape From Happiness
        • FireWorks Festival 2014 >
          • Burying Toni
          • You Have To Earn It
          • Playwright Intensive 2014
        • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 1
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          • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 2
          • I am Marguerite
          • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 3
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