"This boy is dead, stop killing him."
Ancient Greece looks suspiciously similar to the present day in the hands of world-renowned poet and MacArthur Genius Anne Carson (The Autobiography of Red). Antigone has lost two brothers but by law can only bury one. She takes a stand for her beliefs, pitting morality against patriotism, and in doing so starts a series of events that threaten the new-found national peace. It’s one of the most famous myths of all, told and re-told for more than two thousand years, but what use is a cautionary tale if no one heeds it? Carson’s biting and thrilling free translation brings Antigone to new light and casts unexpected shadows on issues of loyalty and family.
Approximate run time: 70 minutes, without intermission
March 1 - April 5, 2015
Richard Christiansen Theater at Victory Gardens
2433 N Lincoln Avenue
Production Sponsors
This program is partially supported by a grant
from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
CAST
Anu Bhatt
Maritza Cervantes
David Guy
David Lawrence Hamilton
Ann James
Lona Livingston
Paloma Nozicka
Eleni Pappageorge
David Prete
Anu Bhatt
Antigone / Choragos
Anu is thrilled to be working with Sideshow for the first time and returning to Victory Gardens' Resident Theater Program, where she played Hero in Rasaka's Much Ado About Nothing – Bollywood Style. Other theatre credits include: the titular character in Jane Eyre (Lifeline); Ms. Banerjee (u/s) in the remount of Principal Principle (Stage Left/Theatre Seven); and Rhino Fest. Anu has also worked with Chicago Shakespeare, Silk Road Rising, Redmoon, Theatre Hikes, Polarity Ensemble, and Collaboraction, among others. Television credits include Chicago Fire (NBC). Last month, Anu debuted her one-woman show Where's My Goddamn Coconut? with MPAACT's Solo Jams and is looking for opportunities to revisit it. In 2013, she received her MFA in acting from Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and she is represented by Gray Talent Group.
Maritza Cervantes
Teiresias / Eurydike
Maritza is a proud alumna of Columbia College Chicago. She graduated in 2001 receiving a BA in theater with a concentration in acting and has been part of the Chicago theater scene for the past 15 years. Also in 2001 she co-founded her band The Luna Blues Machine with her sister and were featured as the “hardest working band in Chicago” in Gozamos on-line magazine in (2012) and as Chicago’s Very Own by WGN (2013). Maritza currently works as a teaching artist, focused on arts integration, with Columbia Colleges’ Community Schools and Project AIM programs at various CPS schools in the Pilsen and Logan Square neighborhoods. Past theater credits include: En Mortem, Polaroid Stories (Flush Puppy Productions), Un Almirante, La Casa De Bernarda Alba (Aguijon Theater Company), Quitamitos, Lunatic(a)s, and MACHOS (Teatro Luna), Howard Zinn’s The People Speak, Live! (The Metro 2012), and most recently Pinkolandia at 16th Street Theater. Thank you to Sideshow Theatre Company for the opportunity to go on this new adventure!
David Guy
Guard / Messenger
David is grateful for the opportunity to work with Sideshow Theatre Company and their production of Antigonick. He has previously performed in productions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Idle Muse Theatre), One Flea Spare (Ghostlight Productions), Harry and the Thief ([performing u/s] Pavement Group), Den of Thieves (The Consortium Project), Silent Night of the Living Dead (New Millennium Theater Company), The Party in the Kitchen, Palmer Park, goodness (Clockwise Theatre), and The Meeting (North Chicago Center for the Arts). He also participated in Rhinofest 2014 in the staged reading and premiere of pygMALI. David is a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf and will next be seen in City Lit Theater's production and premiere of The Bloodhound Law.
David Lawrence Hamilton
Nick
David Lawrence Hamilton is grateful for the opportunity to work with Sideshow again and perform in this provocative play. He thanks his parents and brother for their unwavering support. Credits include: The Bottle Tree and The Firestorm (Stage Left Theatre); Antigonick and The Golden Dragon (Sideshow Theatre); Down Range (Genesis Theatrical Prod); CCX (Modofac Production); A Lesson Before Dying (Lincoln Square Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (Chase Park Theatre).
Ann James
Kreon / Antigone
Ann James is a Sideshow ensemble member and has appeared in its productions of Caught, Antigonick, Maria/Stuart and Idomeneus. Among the companies with whom she has also worked are 16th Street, Goodman, Jackalope, Organic, Pivot Arts, Provision, Shattered Globe and Stage Left. She is the founding director of Chicspeare Production Company, which has brought Shakespeare alive for more than 100,000 Chicago area residents in the past 20 years.
Lona Livingston
Choragos / Teiresias
Lona is delighted to return to Sideshow Theatre again after appearing in Idomeneus, a Jeff Award Best Ensemble recipient directed by Jonathan Green, of course. Lona is an ensemble member at Red Tape Theatre, recently seen in hamlet is dead. no gravity. Favorite credits include Elephant’s Graveyard and Love of the Nightingale at Red Tape and Next Fall at Aston Rep.
Paloma Nozicka
Messenger / Haimon
Paloma is happy to be returning to Sideshow Theatre Company where she appeared in the 2015 production of Antigonick. Recent theatre credits include Bobbie Clearly (Steep Theatre), Our Lady of 121st Street (Eclipse Theatre) and The Play About My Dad (Raven Theatre). TV credits include Chicago Med (NBC), Chicago PD (NBC), Empire (FOX), and Underemployed (MTV). Paloma is represented by the wonderful people at Stewart Talent and NV Talent, and is a proud company member of Jackalope Theatre. Thank you to Marti, Calamity, Sideshow, my family and friends, and to Ryan.
Eleni Pappageorge
Ismene / Guard
Eleni is thrilled to be a part of Sideshow Theatre Company’s Antigonick. Her most recent credits include A Map of Virtue (Cor Theatre) and Cock (Profiles Theatre). She is a proud Waltzing Mechanics company member with whom she develops and performs original documentary theatre including EL Stories and Over My Dead Body. She’s also had the pleasure of working with Northlight, Chicago Dramatists, Remy Bumppo, Second City, Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, and The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. In addition to her theatrical endeavors she spends much of her time in the world of voice over with work ranging from commercials and audio books to pinball machines and The Pre-PostHumanists’ original short fiction podcast “Reading Out Loud.” She is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and holds a BFA in acting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Much love and gratitude to her family, friends, and the fabulous people at Naked Voices and Stewart Talent.
David Prete
Eurydike / Kreon
David is a New York transplant who received his MFA in directing from Northwestern. He’s also a graduate of the New Actors Workshop conservatory in NYC. Chicago acting credits: Eddie in Golden Boy (Griffin Theater), Glenn Gould in What to Listen For (Side Project). Ari (u/s) in My Name Is Asher Lev (TimeLine). Chicago directing: Fat Pig (Steppenwolf Garage), Three Sisters (AD, Steppenwolf), I and You (2014 Steinberg/ATCA Award winner at RedTwist). He co-founded Water Theatre Company in New York City where he worked for 15 years. He has also published two books of fiction with W.W. Norton: Say That to My Face (2003), August and Then Some (2011).
Nate Whelden
Haimon / Ismene
Nate has worked in Chicago with Sideshow (Antigonick, Stupid Fucking Bird, Maria/Stuart, Idomeneus, Strangerland at Chicago Fringe Fest 2011, and Heddatron), the Goodman (Carlyle, New Stages Festival 2014), 16th Street Theatre (Pinoklandia), Jackalope Theatre Company (The Peacock), and The Ruckus (Common Hatred at RhinoFest). He has worked with Ensemble Studio Theatre (NYC) and in 2007 at the Hangar Theatre (Ithaca) as a member of the Lab Company. Nate graduated in 2008 from the University of Virginia with a degree in Drama and a minor in Afro American studies. He graduated high school in Guatemala City and grew up in Latin America. He is proud to be an ensemble member with Sideshow where he treads the boards as Charlie No Pants for the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers and helms Sideshow's new play development program, The Freshness Initiative. Nate sends love to his family, the gutter, the dirt, the youth of America and to Elizabeth Anne.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Anne Carson
Jonathan L. Green
Yu Shibagaki
Noël Huntzinger
William C. Kirkham
Christopher M. LaPorte
Christopher Neville
Shelby Glasgow
Anne Carson
playwright
Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, translator, playwright and classicist. With her background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history and commercial art, Carson blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes and translates Greek mythology. She has published more than a dozen books, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction and non-fiction.
Anne Carson’s translation of Sophokles’ Antigone will premiere in February 2015 at Théâtre National du Luxembourg, in collaboration with the Barbican in London, starring Juliette Binoche and directed by Ivo van Hove; the production will go on to tour London, Paris and New York. Anne is also currently collaborating with Simon McBurney on the cult classic Autobiography of Red. Classic Stage Company produced three of Carson's translations: Aiskhylos' Agamemnon; Sophokles' Elektra; and Euripides' Orestes (as An Oresteia), in repertory, as part of their 2008/2009 season.
Works include: Red Doc>; Antigonick; Nox; If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (translation); The Beauty of the Husband; Men in the Off Hours; Economy of the Unlost; Autobiography of Red; Plainwater: Essays and Poetry; Glass, Irony and God; Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay; Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera; Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (translation). Carson is a MacArthur Fellow; she has received the Lannan Prize, the T.S Eliot Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, Fall 2007.
Jonathan L. Green
director
Jonathan has been the artistic director of Sideshow Theatre since its founding in 2007. He has directed and assisted for Sideshow, Greenhouse Theater Center, Lookingglass, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Diversionary Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Seven of Chicago, Pavement Group and the Earl Hamner, Jr. Theatre. Recent projects include truth and reconciliation, The Happiest Place on Earth, Antigonick, Stupid Fucking Bird, Idomeneus (Jeff Award for ensemble), and others. Recent dramaturgy credits include Blind Date, Objects in the Mirror, Gloria, War Paint, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, and Disgraced, all at Goodman Theatre. Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Virginia, currently serves on the board of directors of the League of Chicago Theatres, and is the literary manager for Goodman Theatre.
Yu Shibagaki
scenic designer
Yu is honored to be back at Sideshow Theatre after designing Antigonick. She was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. She has been fortunate to design The House That Will Not Stand, Appropriate, Mojada (Victory Gardens Theater); The Island, The Year of Magical Thinking (American Players Theatre); Both Your Houses (Remy Bumppo Theatre); Let Me Down Easy/Mercy Strain (American Theater Company); Walk Across America for Mother Earth, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Drunken City (Steppenwolf Garage Theater); and The USA Student Exhibit (2011 Prague Quadrennial World Theater Convention).
Noël Huntzinger
costume designer
Noël hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a graduate of Oklahoma University. Noël is an artistic associate at Sideshow Theatre Company, where her credits include: truth and reconciliation, Stupid Fucking Bird and Antigonick. Noël is a resident artist at Filament Theatre, where her credits include Robin Hood, Van Gogh Café, Pinocchio: A Folk Musical, Hank Williams Lost Highway and others; and an ensemble member at Interrobang Theatre, where she designed Still, North Pool, Pitchfork Disney and others. Noël designed the 2016 New Stages at the Goodman: Blue Skies Process and Support Group for Men. Noël wrapped her first full-length film design, Olympia: an Instruction Manual for Everything, in the summer.
William C. Kirkham
lighting designer
William is thrilled to be back at Sideshow following the 2014 production of Stupid Fucking Bird. William has lit plays and musicals in 47 states and Canada for audiences of all ages; he was the 2014 recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Lighting Design for The Little Prince at Lookingglass Theatre Company. Other Chicago credits include: The Tennessee Williams Project (The Hypocrites); A Year with Frog and Toad, Bud Not Buddy (Chicago Children’s Theatre); The Iron Stag King, Pt. 1 (The House Theatre); Life and Limb (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Regional credits include: The Boy Who Loved Monsters and the Girl Who Loved Peas (Childsplay, AZ); The King and I, The Producers, Peter Pan, The Secret Garden (Arizona Broadway Theatre); The Phantom of the Opera (Vox Lumiere). Upcoming projects include: Three Sisters (The Hypocrites) and Moby Dick (Lookingglass Theatre).
Christopher M. LaPorte
sound designer / composer
Christopher's recent design and composition collaborations include Life Sucks, Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth (Lookingglass Theatre Company), and Roof of the World (Kansas City Repertory). Chris has collaborated on projects with many local Chicago companies such as Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, 17 productions with Sideshow Theatre Company, Timeline, Porchlight, InFusion, Raven, University Of Illinois Chicago, Interrobang, Emerald City. Regional collaborations include Kansas City Repertory, Dallas Theatre Center, The Old Globe (San Diego), Center Stage (Baltimore), Arena Stage (Washington D.C.), Arsht Theatre Center (Miami), Denver Center for the Performing Arts, NY United Solo Festival.
Christopher Neville
properties designer
Christopher is thrilled to be making his Sideshow debut with Antigonick. He has designed properties for American Blues Theater, Congo Square Theater, Griffin Theatre, Northlight Theatre and worked as a artisan at Lookingglass Theatre Company and Paramount Theater. Christopher has worked with costumes at American Blues Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago Opera Theater, Theatre at the Center, and Signal Ensemble. A proud artistic affiliate of American Blues Theater, Christopher trained at Peninsula Players Theatre as a production intern and received his BFA from Oakland University in Rochester, MI.
Shelby Glasgow
stage manager
Shelby is excited to be working with her Sideshow family once again after cleaning up sand for the Jeff Award-winning Idomeneus, cleaning up food and broken dishes for Maria/Stuart, and cleaning up beach balls and other apocalypse survival supplies for The Burden of Not Having a Tail. Shelby has also had the pleasure of stage managing for Nebraska Theatre Caravan (A Christmas Carol), Lookingglass Theatre Company (Adventures with Aladdin!), The Strange Tree Group (The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen), and Lifeline Theatre (A Tale of Two Cities and The Killer Angels). Shelby received her BFA in stage management from the University of Central Florida.
Ellen Willett
production manager
Ellen is happy to be working with Sideshow again after production managing Antigonick and Mai Dang Lao. She regularly works with the talented folks at The Inconvenience, Remy Bumpoo, Steep, Route 66, and the Grant Park Music Festival, making theatre and events. For fun, she serves on the board of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), fosters coonhounds, and takes any opportunity to sail on the lake.
Benjamin W. Dawson
associate production manager
Ben is an artistic associate with Sideshow and is overjoyed to be working with this talented group of miscreants once again. He has worked with the likes of the Goodman, the Santa Fe Opera and The History Channel, to name a few. He is currently the associate technical director at Lookingglass Theatre and the production manager at Lifeline Theatre. In his spare time he produces shows in his living room, for aliens and dogs, using only Lego bricks and mini figures.
Benno Nelson
dramaturg
Benno has served as dramaturg for productions and readings with Sideshow, A Red Orchid Theatre, the Inconvenience, LiveWire, New Leaf and more, and directed productions at The New Colony and Oracle’s B-Sides. His writing has appeared in Time Out, the Paper Machete, Judson Memorial Church, and Collaboraction’s SketchBook.
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PRESS
"A smart and often aching production... revelatory and sometimes downright heartbreaking."
Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune
Suzanne Scanlon, Chicago Reader
"Beautifully rendered, tenderly acted... gorgeously detailed."
Alex Huntsberger, New City
"Absolutely fascinating... a breathtaking coup de théâtre."
Lawrence B. Johnson, Chicago on the Aisle
"Pleasingly puzzling... a gamble that continues to pay off."
Kevin Greene, Chicago Stage Standard
"Witty and colloquial... The acting is very strong throughout the story."
Nancy Bishop, Gapers Block
"Honest, driven and yet intriguingly diverse."
Lawrence Bommer, Stage and Cinema
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