Jean Anouilh’s “Antigone” is coming back into European repertory in Bulgaria. After seven years of working abroad, Alexander Morfov’s premiere is a pivotal event for the Drama and Puppet Theatre in Pleven. Morfov stages a vivid and rich production, composing the cast into a single body and revealing mechanisms of tragedy that we know today and that we have known since Antiquity.  

     This archetypal plot is built by the director and his talented team as a sharp modern production in which old mythology is presented in a manner that calls out for tragedy and tension. Humanity is unable to learn in the course of history, it loses its paths in the labyrinth of its own misconceptions, hitting walls of endless cruelty and destroying its best examples without mercy. Creon is a tyrant having fun who would readily cross all boundaries to preserve his power. Who is guilty and who is innocent doesn’t matter to him, he is not interested in moral dilemmas. He is devoted to the power game, playing it and winning it. Sounds familiar, right? 

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