The Other Place, by Alexander Zeldin
Based on Sophocles' Antigone
Performed in English, with French surtitles.
A contemporary reimagining of Antigone, The Other Place carves from the fabric of everyday life a story with the scope and ersonance of ancient tragedy.
On the anniversary of their father's death, two long estranged sisters return to their childhood home. Their uncle, who has since moved in, has begun renovating the house and is determined to move on from mourning. Amid memories and the debris of the building works, the characters' grief, histories and relationships to the deceased intersect, clash and contradict one another.
With a strikingly realist set design - as in his previous productions presented at Comédie de Genève (LOVE, Une mort dans la famille and The Confessions) - the work unsettles appearances, excavating the everyday life and history of an ostensibly ordinary family in order to expose its contradictions, unspoken violence and irreconcilable trajectories.
The Comédie de Genève is offering GAOS members tickets at the reduced price of CHF 25, instead of CHF 40. You can find them here: https://billetterie.comedie.ch/list/partnerAdvantage?code=GAOS26.
Dates and times:
Thursday 8th October at 19h30
Friday 9th October at 20h
Saturday 10th October at 18h
Sunday 11th October at 15h
Tuesday 13th October at 19h30
Wednesday 14th October at 19h30
