Antigone in the Amazon

For Antigone in the Amazon, Milo Rau and his team traveled to the Brazilian state of Pará, where the forests burn due to the expanding soy monocultures and where nature gets devoured by capitalism. On an occupied piece of land, in collaboration with MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra), the world’s largest landless workers’ movement, they create an allegorical play about the violent devastations and displacements caused by the modern state, which places private property above the traditional right to land. 

After the productions Orestes in Mosul, which was presented at the Pfauen back in 2019, and the film The New Gospel  in the southern Italian refugee camps, the final part of his Trilogy of Ancient Myths is now coming to the Pfauen. Nachtkritik wrote about the premiere at NTGent: "The audience did not spare a standing ovation."