ANTI-GONE
俺抬杠?!
Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre, A.R.T., NEW YORK, NY
Mar 21-23, 2025
Greenside @Georges Street,
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK
Aug 13-16, 2025
Production Photos Credit: @charlotteshidesign, @yvonnelou
Anti-gone 俺抬杠?!
HAIMON/EUNUCH (Double Cast)
In a Northern Chinese village in the 1980s, on the final day of a three-day burial ceremony, the mourning hall becomes a battleground.
Polynikes, the eldest son of the Oedipus family, lies in his casket, but his spirit lingers in the human world. His late brother Eteocles waits to escrot him into the afterlife. Meanwhile, their surviving sisters are at odds. Antigone refuses to honor the brother she despises, and Ismene tries to keep her from causing more trouble. At the same time. Polynikes’ young children attempt to force their way into the adult world with their own childishly almighty will.
What should have been a solemn funeral spirals into chaos.
As incense burns and tempers ignite, class struggles rage beyond the grave, coffins talk back, and ghosts settle old scores. Welcome to the ultimate family feud—where the dead won’t stay silent, and the living refuse to let go.
WRITTEN BY YIWEI LU
DIRECTOR: DEJING “ELOISE” WANG
SCENIC DESIGN: JUNRAN “CHARLOTTE” SHI
LIGHTING DESIGN: ZIJUN “NEIL” WANG
COSTUME & MAKEUP DESIGN: YINXUE WANG
SOUND DESIGN: HENRY SHEN
ASSISTANT SOUND DESIGN: CHRISTY PANG
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: CARINA JIANG
STAGE MANAGER: JC, LINXI JIANG (EFF), XUELAI HAN (EFF)
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: XUELAI HAN, XUAN GE (EFF)
PRODUCER & DRAMATURG: ZIHE TIAN
WITH PERFORMANCES BY TINA QIU, YUNYI JOY YANG (EFF), LUNA PENG, LANA ZHANG, JADEN ZHAO, YIWEI WILL LU (EFF), YUCHEN ZHOU, AND ZHI QU.
PRESS: ANTI-GONE 俺抬杠?! to Premiere at A.R.T./New York in March
Published by Broadway World
PRESS: 中文話劇「俺抬槓?!」 外外百老匯上演
Bilingual Play ANTI-GONE 俺抬杠?! Made its Debut at Off-Off-Broadway Venue
Published by World Journal
PRESS: Anti-Gone, A Bilingual Burial-battle Reimagines Antigone Going from NYC to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Published by THEATRE-NEWS.com
REVIEW: Anti-Gone - Family, Memory, and The Weight of The Past
Reviewed by Lin Song
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