Event Description
A Show of Rage and Defiance
'Antigone' explodes onto the Roundhouse stage with raw energy and unflinching relevance on the eve of International Women’s Day 2026.
This dynamic interpretation of Sophocles’ timeless tragedy centres on a fearless young woman who refuses to stay silent.
Set within a world shaped by political unrest, the story unfolds in the aftermath of a brutal civil war, where Antigone’s brothers have killed each other fighting on opposing sides. Power quickly consolidates under King Creon, who orders one brother honoured while the other is denied burial as punishment for turning against the state. Antigone’s decision to challenge the ruling ignites a brutal clash between personal conviction and authoritarian power.
This is no dusty myth. It’s a charged story of protest, conscience, and defiance, set against a backdrop of political turmoil that feels both ancient and alarmingly current.
Antigone’s act of resistance sparks questions that burn with urgency today: Who gets to decide what is just? Where should our loyalty lie? With the state, or with family, or with ourselves? And what price are we prepared to honour the truth?
Visceral, poetic and uncompromising, this energetic reimagining of Antigone — directed by La Boite Theatre’s Artistic Director, Courtney Stewart (Macbeth, Congratulations, Get Rich!) and award-winning fight, movement and intimacy director Nigel Poulton (Closer, The Poison of Polygamy)—thrusts Sophocles’ classic into the heart of our fractured present-day world. Starring Maddison Burridge as Antigone, alongside Hayden Spencer and Billy Fogarty, this three-hander production ignites a rallying cry for courage in the face of oppression.
