Antigone // Mercury Colchester 2021
by Merlynn Tong after Sophocles
director: Dawn Walton
lighting designer: Alex Wardle
composer: Blasio Kavuma
sound designer: Mike Winship
photographer: Pamela Raith
★★★★★ “The power of the set – from the decorated coffin to the almost crumbling concrete walls – immediately sets the tone for a tale of destruction and tragedy. This is probably one of the best takes on Greek tragedy you will see.” Whats On Stage
“Simon Kenny’s design sites the action in a brutalist concrete bunker with raised galleries and yawning tunnels radiating off a central chamber, simultaneously evoking the lonely corridors of power in war-torn Thebes, and the austere tombs awaiting the plays’ protagonists.” The Stage
“Simon Kenny’s stark design evokes both an ancient Greek forum and Antigone’s tomb, its deteriorating pillars matching the text’s motifs of decay.“ The Guardian