Bodo Wartke & Melanie Haupt

Antigone - the new play with Bodo Wartke! After King Oedipus, the piano
the piano cabaret artist proves his acting talent for the second time with a tragedy
by Sophocles.
Wartke and his long-standing stage partner Melanie Haupt play all the roles in the play
of the play in rapid role changes with few props in a minimalist
minimalist stage design. Like its predecessor, Antigone is also
rhymed throughout, the language is modern and there are once again numerous
pop-cultural references to discover. With all due respect and yet humorously
the makers of the play approach their Antigone without taking the tragedy out of the play.
tragedy.
The play, conceived by dramaturge Carmen Kalisch, director Sven Schütze and Bodo Wartke
Bodo Wartke, shows the topicality of the ancient material, in which the
main character self-determinedly rebels against a newly enacted law in the state.
The focus is on timeless questions about the responsibility of the state on the one hand
on the one hand and the role of the individual on the other.