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
May 1-3
8pm in W97
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May 4
2pm in W97
345 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Direction: Blythe de Oliveira Foster
Mentorship of Design and Production Students: Sara Brown
Stage Management: Lily Barnes
Director of Production: Maggie Moore
Technical Direction: Joseph Lark-Riley
Assistant Direction: Katrina Chan & Xinyu Xu
Co-Set Design: Sara Brown & Alayo Oloko
Costume Design: Chloe Chapin
Assistant Costume Design: Verose Agbing
Costume Alterations: April McCoy
Choreography: Alissa Cardone
Assistant Choreography: Kate Warner
Composing and Sound Design: Christian Frederickson
Lighting Design: Kevin Fulton
Associate Lighting Design: Alayo Oloko
Video Design: Klara Ballay
Video Engineering: Emi Grady-Willis
Dramaturgy: Maria De Simone
Props: Jonathan Fajors
Acting Coaching: Shifty Celestin
Senior Administrative Assistant, Theater Arts: Yi (Jennifer) Tu
Director of Communications: Dan Pecci
Head, Music & Theater Arts: Jay Scheib
