Are the choices we make today ours or already predetermined?
When Esmeh was 14, she ran away from her East London home and joined the Islamic State in Syria. Now the war is over, she finds herself stranded in a refugee camp and her citizenship cancelled by the UK’s Home Secretary. Her sister Antiya launches a hunger strike to bring her home causing a media frenzy that engulfs her and the Home Secretary’s family in a dangerous PR game no one is sure how is played.
Set in an interactive media studio where you vote and affect the story’s direction, this is a new play inspired by Sophocles’ classic tragedy Antigone and the real stories of the young women who became the so called ‘ISIS Brides’.
Developed through student workshops in East London, this is a challenging immersive theatre piece that looks at the effect of behaviour-predicting technologies on freedom of choice and democracy.
Praise for previous productions
★★★★★ ‘A dystopian immersive masterpiece – UNMISSABLE!’
ToDoList London on The White Plague
★★★★ ‘A theatrical experience that will stay with you for a long time’
LondonTheatre1 on The White Plague
Creative Team
WRITER AND DIRECTOR | ALEXANDER RAPTOTASIOS
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGE | OR BENEZRA-SEGAL
SET & LIGHTING DESIGNER | MARCO TURCICH
COSTUME DESIGNER | MARIE-CECILE INGLESI
TEXT EDITOR | JULIA HARTLEY
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP DESIGNER | HAFSAH ANEELA BASHIR
VIDEOGRAPHER | VITTORIA BELLI
Ferodo Bridges in association with Park Theatre presents the World Premiere of
Antigone [on strike]
Written and directed by Alexander Raptotasios