The Greek tragedy, Antigone, starring Juliette Binoche. will feature an acclaimed supporting cast for its March 2015 run at London's Barbican Theatre with an international tour to follow.
Celebrated Belgian director, Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic, transferring to the West End) will helm the English-language production, which will premiere in February 2015 at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg before transferring to London. It will begin performances at the Barbican on March 4, open on March 5 and run through March 28.
The international tour that follows will include BAM in Brooklyn, NY, the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, as well as Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris and Recklinghausen.
Van Hove is artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam and he has also directed Off-Broadway. His recent bare-bones version of Tony Kushner's Angels in America played at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House as part of BAM's Next Wave Festival in Brooklyn in October 2014.
Presented in a new translation by noted Canadian poet Anne Carson, Antigone will feature Obi Abili and Samuel Edward-Cook (the recent Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe), Patrick O'Kane (UK Theatre Award, Best Performance in a Play for Quietly), Kirsty Bushell, Finbar Lynch and Kathryn Pogson.
Back in May, when the production was first announced, Toni Racklin, the Barbican's head of theatre, said in a statement:
"We are thrilled to be co-producing Antigone and presenting this new production here at the Barbican and taking it to stages around the world. Antigone illustrates how a major new production can be realized through our strong relationships with global partners. We bring back Juliette Binoche, following her mesmerising performances in Mademoiselle Julie here in 2012, and Ivo van Hove, with whom we have a long-standing relationship through Roman Tragedies and Scenes from a Marriage. Our international programme enabled these two world class artists to meet and collaborate for the first time and we have specially commissioned the eminent Canadian poet Anne Carson to write this new translation."
Best known for her film roles in both French and English, Academy Award and BAFTA winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Chocolat), received a Tony Award nomination for a 2000 Broadway production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal.
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