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Anti-gone

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Anti-gone

2022

Music/ Experimental Theater/ Video. Duration: 29'31''
Premiere at Institut Français,2 Trang Tien, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Commissioned by Goethe Institut Hanoi, Vietnam

 

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Concept: Ha Thuy Hang & Dinh Thao Linh

Stage Director: Ha Thuy Hang 

Composer and Music Improviser: Ha Thuy Hang

Video: Nguyen Duy Anh 

Camera: Nguyen Thanh Vinh - Thu Uyen

Producer: Thao-Linh Dinh, Cao Viet Nga

Performer: People's Artist Hong Khiem and the other actresses

Photography: Hoang Nguyen

Goethe Institut Hanoi, Vietnam 2022

 

    ‘Anti-gone’ is an experimental performance - theater video focusing on the mental, and spiritual state of Antigone, where unseen assumptions about a place, an indeterminate space, and a link between life and death are constantly ascertained. Here, she narrates, expressing her inner thoughts amidst a symbolic scene - a woman facing the most important yet lonely decisions, precarious yet ever grand and passionate.

    Antigone is a famous tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles in 2500 B.C. ‘Anti-gone’ is not a retelling or a production of the play, and it does not aim to be a feminist or political declaration. ‘Anti-gone’ is a private view of a tragedy. It happens seemingly in a very strange setting (Greece of 2500 B.C.), yet still lies close to the Vietnamese lifeworld, as a comparison to the narratives in traditional theaters and to the women around us will show.

   

    

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