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