Tonight at the Playwright's Festival.

A bit about tonight. This is from the Deutsches website.

"Darja Stocker has radically rewritten Sophocles’ tragedy about the resistance of an individual against authoritarian state power, charging it with the political upheaval that led to the Arab Spring and yet remaining faithful to the central core of the play. Ancient Thebes is turned into the "Fortress of Europe", and the war that rages outside its walls can be understood as the one currently being waged along Europe’s external borders. The playwright asks: Why does political action invariably involve the construction of an image of the enemy? Instead, she proposes an alternative image of a generation that believes in solidarity and universal humanism, urging for a revolution.

Darja Stocker, born in 1983 in Zurich, began writing at the age of 11 and studied Creative Writing for the Stage at the UdK Berlin. In the meantime she has become a sought-after playwright. For her debut play Nachtblind (Night Blind) she was awarded the Playwright’s Prize at the Heidelberg Stückemarkt in 2005. In 2011 she took up an international residency at the Royal Court Theatre London. From 2012 to 2014, immediately after the time of the revolution, she lived and worked in Tunisia and Egypt. Nirgends in Friede. Antigone (Nowhere in Peace. Antigone) is shaped by her experiences there."