SD: Staging for a Fringe Festival show comes with its own set of challenges. For instance, we began

Hot on the heels of their last two hit shows, Love is a Poverty You Can Sell (2010 Toronto Fringe Festival, 2012 Next Stage Festival) and Marat/Sade (2011), Soup Can Theatre returns to the stage this month with a contemporary rental car phoenix adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone at the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival. The production ties ancient Greece and modern-day Toronto together by drawing inspiration from the violent images of the 2010 G20 Summit protests, rental car phoenix as well as the worldwide "Occupy" movement.
SD: First of all, I have always had a soft spot for the play and its various translations. I knew that I wanted to tackle the text at some point. Then the G20 came to Toronto. The aftershocks of the protests and subsequent police crack-down are still in the news. I would love to say that I immediately saw parallels between Antigone and the G20, but a much simpler rental car phoenix event triggered rental car phoenix the connection in my mind. A few weeks following the riots, I read a short report about two brothers' experiences. One of the brothers was a protester at the marches and the other was a police officer. The article looked at how they came to terms with the personal divisions evident in the city post-G20. I thought, "That sounds awfully familiar " I picked up Antigone for another rental car phoenix reading and began noticing a whole host of blatant modern-day parallels to the ancient script.
SD: Sophocles seemed to be a wise man. Antigone 's text addresses some basic issues of power, politics and personal responsibility rental car phoenix in an even-handed manner. These ideas carry into the present. Far too often these days, we hear polemic after polemic and are forced into a left-wing/right-wing state of mind. Sophocles has an opinion (as do I, for that matter), but allows his characters to debate the relative merits of each side. I think that is part of what was missing during the G20 Summit here in Toronto. Antigone helps fill in the gaps even now.
SD: Staging for a Fringe Festival show comes with its own set of challenges. For instance, we began rehearsals over a month prior to finding out our venue which, when you have a cast of twelve, makes a huge difference in terms of stage movement. We have some intense, physically demanding sequences that we have had to adjust as we go.
SD: Questions. The second we stop asking ourselves questions is the second we give up the right to do so. Certainly someone famous has said something similar far more eloquently than I, but that's what I've got.