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“(Tr)Antigone"

Theater Transgression's production of Antigone - Preview performance at Brecht Forum, NYC; premier run at House of Yes, NYC, July 29th to August 1st, 2010.

Theater Transgression remixes gender, power, interactive video, wearable sculpture, gutter glamour and queer grandeur in an intergalactic explosion of color in post-apocalyptic Thebes. A superstar virtual chorus joins a cast of eight transgender and genderqueer actors to retell this tale of war, authoritarianism, defiance, and love.

Projection designer, using Max/MSP. Live queueing of the Chorus, overlaying live video feed with background. Chorus content and live video feed filmed by Zavé Martohardjono. All other background is 16mm film hand processed and hand transferred to video by Niknaz Tavakolian. Costumes by Blaise Bonfire. Makeup by Gage of Boone.

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"She's clearly the fierce daughter of a fierce father. She does not know how to bend with the wind."

Antigone and Ismene, the last surviving children of Oedipus, lose their siblings in a battle of brother against brother. When their uncle takes the throne and forbids the burial of one brother, Antigone faces a brutal death sentence to honor her kin.

With the grandeur of queer flare and merging video art and live performance, Theater Transgression plays at patriarchy and the rigid gender roles in Antigone with deep awareness. This gender-queer production brings new light to the play's themes of political defiance, desire and power in the family and gender oppression. Uniquely cast, this vibrant multi-media production fuses ancient archetypes and futuristic aesthetics with its fantastical costuming, colorful staging, live video projections and a virtual video chorus.

The production opens its doors to the participation of the broader transgender and queer community with a "virtual" video chorus. Consisting of close to twenty transgender and queer artists and activists based in New York, North Carolina and Texas, the chorus appears in video projections. Looming above the stage performers, the "virtual" video chorus provides moral guidance to characters throughout the play and reminds us of the important multi-vocal presence the community has in our lives.

Our broader aim as the collective of artists that comprises Theater Transgression is to expand space for trans-identified artists and queer allies to create new media theater and performance projects. Theater Transgression came together out of the excitement of members to work together in a predominantly transgender production. We hope that by self-defining our collective as specifically gender-non-conforming, we give space to members to acknowledge and explore their perspectives through performance expression. We hope to move above and beyond theater and performance that narrowly addresses specific identity politics and to increase equal access to producing, performing and creating a wide range of theater.

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