Antigonick

May 1-3, 8pm 
May 4, 2pm 
(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) 

THEATER at MIT 
The 2025 Spring Theater Arts Production (21T.100) 
ANTIGONICK
adapted from Sophocles’ Antigone by ANNE CARSON 
direction by BLYTHE DE OLIVEIRA FOSTER 
mentorship of design and production students by SARA BROWN

“I AM BORN OF LOVE NOT HATRED” - ANTIGONE

A wedding bouquet. A community in conflict. A family pulled apart by war. Witnesses, messengers, conversations in the dark, and many, many acts of love…

Participate in this immersive staging of the spirited debates about love at the heart of Antigonick, a contemporary, and visual translation of Sophocles’ Antigone, by Anne Carson with illustrations by Bianca Stone. What are some of the practical, everyday ways that we live through loss? How do we respond when individual values, the natural world, and laws of the state collide? Crack an egg, bake a cake, and help us imagine what hope could look like here…

In collaboration with: Verose Agbing, Fara Alade, Mustafa Al-Obaidi, Daina August, Katrina Chan, Yiding Chen, Shifty Celestin, Andrew Emmel, Fadi Farag, Emi Grady-Willis, Yunseo Jo, Maha Yawar Khan, Mingpei Li, Lisa Li-Liang, Juno Matthews, Ariel McGee, Alayo Oloko, Tea Picconatto, Alex Tran, Katherine Warner, Xinyu Xu