The Antigone Coffeehouse

 A festival of new works of poetry, theatre, and dance
inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone.

 Mondays and Tuesday, April 21, 22, 28, 29, at 8pm
At Lincoln Square Theatre (4754 N Leavitt Avenue)  

 Two different programs of pieces alternate. 
Tickets are $10 for one performance or $15 for a festival pass to both programs.  

 Purchase tickets here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/32006

This project is inspired by the Year of Antigones project spearheaded by the philosophy department at DePaul University, which hopes “to explore the play in an interdisciplinary context, paying particular attention to both ancient and contemporary analyses, translations, and adaptations…Antigone has been seen as ‘a feminist, a terrorist, a model for resistance against oppression, a self-destructive ideologue, an exponent of feminine desire, and a victim … Antigone is reinvented for every generation.’” Caffeine Theatre’s marriage of poetry and theatre is particularly suited to infuse the ancient tradition of the tragic poets with the contemporary essence of Chicago storefront theatre.

Monday Program (April 21,28):

Antigone's Red by Chiori Miyagawa, directed by Rachel Walshe
Interrogation & Lullaby by Nina Iskrenko, translated by Olga Livshin and
             Andrew Janco, directed by Lavina Jadhwani
Benazir’s Parrot Fluttering by Robin Morrissey,
             directed by Lavina Jadhwani
Haemon and Creon Poems by Marc Noble, directed by Barry Brunetti
Antigone the Dog by Jacob Juntunen, directed by Joanie Schultz
The Bird Feeder, conceived and directed by Fannie Hungerford
Poems by Kit Kelen

Tuesday Program (April 22, 29):
Choral Fragments for Sophocles by Kerry Shawn Keys,
             directed by Lisa Vaccarello
Red Again by Chiori Miyagawa, directed by Scott Olson
Myself of My State by David Dastmalchian, directed by Lisa Vaccarello
The Bird Feeder, conceived and directed by Fannie Hungerford
Annie & Izzy by Jordan Hall, directed by Courtney Miller
Household God by Elizabeth Cobbe, directed by Jessica Hutchinson
A Metaphor of Translation featuring Eurydice, Queen of Thebes 
             by L.B. Thompson, Music by Jeannie Woelker
Identification by Kerry Shawn Keys, directed by Jessica Hutchinson
 

 Year of Antigones website: http://condor.depaul.edu/~phildept/antigone/events.html