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STUDIO
ANTIGONE-ÂM MÙ Sophocles
Project Antigone - Am Mu is sponsored by the Goethe-Institut and Antigone Saison.
Video production by Antigone - Am Mu supported by Complex 01, Creative Garage and Union Hub
Director / Scenography / Lighting design Ha Nguyen Long
Performer Tran Thien Tu - Hong Ma - Pham Bao Ngoc - Tran Quang Huy - Nguyen Duy Anh Tuan
- Nguyen Thu Hau - Minh Anh - Yet Yet - Le Minh Tam - Huong Tra - Nguyen Binh Minh
Staging concept Ha Nguyen Long - Nguyen Quang Kiem
Interactive Scenario Hong Anh - Nguyen Binh Minh - Tran Hien Mai
Music composition / Sound design / Sound technical management Nhung Nguyen (in cooperation with Maria Papadomanolaki)
Montage Trinh Quang Linh
Audio editor Do Tung
Project management Nguyen Quang Kiem
Video production technical consulting Nguyen Binh Minh - Nguyen Quang Kiem
Costume design LOONY supported by Hatter Minh
Stage manager Pham Ngoc Minh Thu
Communication management Vu Hoang Long supported by Le Minh Tam - Nguyen Binh Minh
Graphic design Sam Nguyen
Sound technicians Cao Le Hoang - Tran Uy Duc - Tung Le - Viet Hung - Hoang Hai - Hanh Tho - Do Tung
Stage management assistants Phan Dinh Linh Chi - Hoang Thao - Tran Minh Quang - Linh Lan - Tran Thu Thuy
- Nguyen Tran Thien Han - Bui Kien Trung - Taia - Quang Sinh Ton
Makeup artists Nguyen My Linh - Dinh Thi Ngoc Mai - Nguyen Minh Luyen
Translation by Ha Nguyen Long, edited by Ut Quyen
Video subtitles Trinh Quang Linh
If King Oedipus leaving behind a corpse with a gaping wound, Oedipus at Colonus acts as a reminder, a revelation, then with Antigone, over time, that corpse has bruised, somewhat decomposed, but the blood has not stopped leaking from the old wound, and people are still stabbing that corpse, many times, but the blood will no longer come out again. And there's a sense that, other than the characters, in the shared universe that includes, us and the gods, no one really cares. The work that ends a Trilogy evokes the feeling of an event that is no longer important, affirming a consequence that can no longer be changed, a feeling of regret and helplessness. Each scene of Antigone as a transparent layer of content that can be “read” over each other, to realize that the characters seem stuck in what they say, and what other people say. Like when Creon first talked about the two corpses of his two brothers of Antigone at the beginning of the play, he is talking about the deaths of his son and his wife on that same day. A manipulated fairness that is symmetrical and fast.
“When the two of them perished by a double fate,
in one day stabbing and being stabbed
dirtying the other person's body with each other's weapons,(...)” - Creon
"As fast as possible.
The gods are not slow when they bring down their wrath on those who have gone astray.”- Chorus