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"Bristol’s promising new youth theatre stage a production melding ancient Greek myth and modern political allegory. ‘Welcome to Thebes’ uses Sophocles’ Antigone as a lens to view postcolonial politics and notions of ‘civilisation’ in an alternate reality where the Greek empire stretches through Africa."
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A event on Thursday 2nd February. The event starts at 19:30.
Bristol School of Acting Yr 2 diploma students present Welcome to Thebes by Moira Buffini, directed by Aaron Parsons.
He put this gun into my hand and made me human once again. Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice, promises peace to her nation.
Without the aid of Theseus, the leader of the vastly wealthy state of Athens, she doesn't stand a chance. But Theseus is arrogant, mercurial and motivated by profit. A swaggering opposition circles, impatient for insurrection. The body of the former dictator lies unburied. Set in the present day but inspired by ancient myth, Welcome to Thebes offers a passionate exploration of an encounter between the world's richest and the world's poorest countries in the aftermath of a brutal war.
Age 14+
Content Warning: Strong language, scenes with blood, sexual assault, gun violence with prop weapons, guns pointed towards audience
2 - 4 February | 7.30pm | Performance Space at Creative Youth Network
Entry requirements:
He put this gun into my hand and made me human once again. Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice, promises peace to her nation.
Without the aid of Theseus, the leader of the vastly wealthy state of Athens, she doesn't stand a chance. But Theseus is arrogant, mercurial and motivated by profit. A swaggering opposition circles, impatient for insurrection. The body of the former dictator lies unburied. Set in the present day but inspired by ancient myth, Welcome to Thebes offers a passionate exploration of an encounter between the world's richest and the world's poorest countries in the aftermath of a brutal war.
Age 14+
Content Warning: Strong language, scenes with blood, sexual assault, gun violence with prop weapons, guns pointed towards audience
2 - 4 February | 7.30pm | Performance Space at Creative Youth Network
Entry requirements:
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