![]() ![]() Told by a cast with disparate diasporic identities, The Oedipus/Antigone Project questions displacement and exile today, alongside contemporary notions of homeland. ![]() Navigational tools guide this father/daughter and/or brother/sister pairing away from a state ruled by a powerful few who disregard those who populate it. Together they struggle to protect each other within a civic code that confounds them. The evening-length work follows a fictional journey of two outcasts, Oedipus and Antigone, as they look for a way out of horrific circumstances, trying to maintain a sense of self while acknowledging that the gods are not on their side. What happens to us when we are in between homes? What happens when we are on the road either by choice or necessity, negotiating between the contour lines of imagined and concrete terrain? Choreographer Lionel Popkinās The Oedipus/Antigone Project uses immigration forms, topographical maps, and an unstable relationship to the ground to approach these questions through intersections of story and myth, and the truths therein. ![]()
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