Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet,
performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal
about town, feminist, freewheeler, and
friend. One day, she is going to be an
ideas curator. Which basically
means, she will tell you
exactly what she thinks.
Until then, you’ll have
to read between
the lines.
Radiotonic – going old school
Obviously I went to one of those ridiculously expensive schools that is secretly masquerading as a holding pen for women they hope will marry well and then retire, because I never read Antigone by Sophocles.
Either that or I did chemistry.
Either way, I have read it now for, as a part of my time as one of the Artists in Residence with La Boite Theatre, I have had the pleasure of working to create a short radio play, Agent Ion, that draws from Sophocles’ classic work. And tomorrow I will have the additional pleasure of working with the crew from Radio National’s Radiotonic to transfer that work into a place of sound and voice and in the ears talking.
I have considered the play in relation to our current terror-theorising-homegrowing, while Future Fidel, Dan Evans and Sandra Carluccio, are also considering their own takes on the text. I wonder if there are others out there who have considered Antigone, its questions of blindness versus sight, natural law versus man-made law, family versus citizenship, civil disobedience, fate and free will? And places where we might be considering this in contemporary Australia?
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