Sophocles' Antigone was premiered in the Térszínház in 1996 and it has been performed continuously ever since due to the significant interest. The director of the piece was the well known and Jászai Mari prize laureated Hunor Bucz. He passed away in 2022 so the noble task of restoring and keep the production alive has became our duty.

Both the young director Ádám Kaj who has been the co-director in the restaoration of the play, and the main restaoration director, the famous Kossuth- and Jászai Mari prize laureated actor and director, Károly Eperjes had a great personal relationship with Hunor Bucz, and both of them are expert interpreters of his theatrical language and ars poetics.

As the director writes about the play in his journal entry: „The coexistence of the state and sigle human being is a failure. The history of humanity is a series of inglorious experiments. The ethos of the state and the dignity of man are irreconcilably opposed. Woe to the one who would embody either... Woe to Creon and woe to Antigone. It is the sin of the creation.

In this restaorated edition we wellcome three new actor: Panni Kelecsényi, Márk Wettstein and Tibor Szakács as contributor.

„CREON

                                                  An enemy

can never be a friend, not even in death.

ANTIGONE

But my nature is to love. I cannot hate.

CREON

Then go down to the dead. If you must love,

love them. No woman’s going to govern me—   

no, no—not while I’m still alive.”