num_pages: 210
description: Antigone Undone offers an urgent and mesmerizing account of the creative and destructive power of great art.In 2015 Will Aitken journeyed to Luxembourg for the rehearsals and premiere of Anne Carsons translation of Sophokles 5th-century BCE tragedy Antigone starring Juliette Binoche and directed by theatrical sensation Ivo van Hove. In watching the play he became awestruck with the plight of the young woman at the centre of the action. Look at what these men are doing to me Antigone cries expressing the predicament of the dispossessed throughout time. Transfixed by the strange and uncanny power of the play he finds himself haunted by its protagonist finally resulting in a suicidal breakdown. With a backstage view of the action Aitken illuminates the creative process of Carson Binoche and Van Hove and offers a rare glimpse into collaborative genius in action. He also investigates the response to the play by Hegel Virginia Woolf Judith Butler and others who too were moved by its timeless protest against injustice.
language: None
title: Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, and the Art of Resistance
publisher: University of Regina Press