Antigone Retold is a reimagining of the ancient tale of Antigone, daughter of the cursed house of Oedipus and an anachronistic feminist icon who was centuries ahead of her time. Our version follows the tale of a fiery, fierce Antigone who is brought to life with a classical cast of Sophocleans who speak the words as they were written in 441 BCE. However, interspersed amongst this ancient narrative, we witness the 21st century rebirth of Athena, Hera, Medusa, Aphrodite, Megara and Pandora who are summoned from their statued silence by Calliope, the muse of epic poetry and our new director. Set in an imaginary museum called The Elizabeth Sneddon and bursting with enough pop culture to make your head spin, Calliope and her troupe of Dionysian dancers shine the spotlight on The Seven Devils of Greek Mythology as they contemplate the complicated narrative of Antigone as it unfolds all around them.

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The Woza Habibi Tour aimed to ignite in Durban the same collaborative, creative, communal synergies we experienced in artistry and education in Dubai two years prior. The Durban iteration provides us with another opportunity to prove the impact of our synergistic model, where implementation strategies happening within one platform are integrated into the creative processes of another, elevating everything and everyone equally throughout every facet of the process and performance. The embedding of spaces for skills and knowledge to be shared in this cross-continental collaboration cannot be overstated. I am so proud of the work our Durban and Dubai cast, crew, choir and collaborative partners have put into this piece. There is a hunger for experimental work like this in my beautiful hometown and my hope is that this sparks a flame that is fanned into a blazing inferno of ideas for more, and more, and more to emerge out of the Durban theatrical community.​