The goal of Antigone of Syria is to run an open workshop where Syrian women refugees have a safe place to express their bodies and their minds. Their hard work culminated in three performances at Al Madina Theatre, Beirut in December 2014
The women who we welcome on to the project engage with one another in many ways, including by recounting their personal stories from Syria. We are then working together to blend some of these stories into the ancient Greek text. The end result will be a 21st century Syrian adaptation of Sophocles’ tragic tale.
THE TEAM
Find out about the team behind the Antigone of Syria; their mission, their past experience, their motivations behind joining the project, alongside links to personal content.
THE NURSERY
With rehearsals underway we look after our actresses' children, and let them sweep us away in the magical world of their imaginations.
Photography WorkSHOP
The women have been given cameras to do self-portraits, as well as to record aspects of their personal lives that are meaningful to them.
“In truth the ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ has no end, because everything which happens in it must extend into life… The ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ is located precisely on the frontier between fiction and reality - and this border must be crossed. If the show starts in fiction, its objective is to become integrated into reality, into life.”