 So, good morning everybody. My name is Gatrice Arcissimier from Turkey and I'm the convener of this workshop. My people who you won't understand and my English is a little better so I speak in English and I hope everybody understands. This workshop, which I'm going to introduce in a moment is a sequel, a continuation of a workshop that we did here in Athens last year also in the framework of the Analogio Festival. Last year we concentrated on how do you present an unknown text from three perspectives of directors, three perspectives of translators and so on. This year the focus is on translation. We try to find out, to explore how does translation affect stage concept. So in order to do this and not to bewilder everybody we took just a small scene. A scene that I think most of you will recognize and the scene is the first encounter, the first clash conflict between Antigone and Creon in Sophocles Antigone. So those of you who don't recall the play precisely will hear it in Greek in two or three versions so after that you'll already be set and then you'll hear it in three English translations and then we have a surprise and I'll use surprise at the end. So you have to stay. We have three translators whom I like to thank, Professor Giorgos Zambolakis. From Greece we have Mr. Matthias here from Germany and we have Yagid Eliraz from Israel. Each one will direct two or a few more scenes and each one will introduce exactly. The whole thing will take about this part of the morning will take about one hour and twenty minutes or something. I know we don't have an air condition here, it's hot. You'll suffer a lot but as you know, as Sophocles said you'll learn from suffering. As a finish I would like to thank Professor Sisi Pappan for inviting us here and all her wonderful stuff, really wonderful and helpful stuff. Okay, so I invite Professor Zambolakis to please. Thank you, Professor. Thank you all for being here. I would like to introduce my team. It's Simeon Kosakoglu, Kusadines and Agni, Maria Rundam, Dimitris Karanapopoulos, Irini Koumusi, Kevi Kroni. We work just for four days and I try to create a kind of material, acting, we work with this idea how to create active material and how to present different versions using this material. Our work is how to embody the text and how to create different energies and how to create a chorus version. What you are going to see is a chorus version. It's not a multi-group of Antigones and the pream. Okay, let's start, please, just five minutes, just a warm-up for the way we're going to make it in front of you. Are you ready to go? Yeah! So... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... The same mother, the same father, the same mother. How do you distinguish who is ready? This is not an accident for the other. It does not matter if you work in their body, they kill them. And the other is the opposite. For some laws. It is not possible that I was born with evil. I was not born in order to live. And if you have to love someone, you are a woman. And the government... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... is the service of the other, the Christian and to recognize the broken laws and it should not be the service of the other and the broken laws the service of the other you know, and with the help of the Christian to bring the broken laws and now the second one since he did what he did, he laughed and laughed with the bad eye the bad eye of course because he did not know what he was doing he was sitting on his head and talking he was talking to the man who said what he did he did not know, he was known to all and to all the laws I want you to be brothers, the same strongman your brother the same brother who was killed the same father, the same mother the same mother how do you distinguish who is our brother? this is not the service of the other you do not agree with what you say but you are our brother with the bad eye to recognize that this is the bad eye for some laws it is not possible that I know I will not be a friend to the enemy I will not be born for a half I was born for love I was born for a half I was born for love no one goes and if you have to love someone he loves you as long as I live the woman will not rule one is from the 20th century which you see first and the other one is from the 19th century the 20th century translation is by a guy called Jan C. Johnson the Johnson he is Canadian he is alive he was born in 1938 and he is retired professor for classics, that is whatever in Toronto he translated a lot using the whole antique catalogue from top to down and so even we don't know exactly from which year the translation is but I suppose something like 70's or 80's or whatever it is not brand new but it is not an old one first of all I want to thank you both we did this journey together these four days it was a pleasure and let's see the first version you with your face bent down towards the ground what do you say do you deny what you did or do you admit I admit I didn't I won't deny that tell me briefly not in some of this speech were you aware there was a proclamation forbidding what you did how could I not it was public knowledge and yet you dared to defy the laws yes Zeus did not announce those laws to me and justice living with the gods below sent no such laws for men I did not think anything which you proclaimed strong enough to let a mortal override the gods and their unwritten and unchanging laws they're not just for today or yesterday but exist forever and no one knows where they first appeared so did I not mean to let a fear of any human will lead to my punishment among the gods I know all too well I'm going to die how could I not it made no difference what you decree and if I have to die before my time well I can't die again when someone has to live the way I do surrounded by so many evil things how can she fail to find a benefit in death and for me meeting this fate won't bring any pain but if I'd allowed my own mother's dead son to just lie there an unburied corpse I'd feel distress what's going on here does not distress me at all if you think what I'm doing here now stupid perhaps I'm being charged with foolishness by someone who's a fool you should know the most ignorant bills of those most prone to break the strongest iron tempered in the fire to make it really hard that's the kind that you see most often shattered but look where the most impestuous forces are tamed no more but by a small bit pride has no room in someone whose neighbors this girl here has already been very insolent by contradicting the laws that we have proclaimed here she again displays her proud content having done the act now she boasts of it she laughs at what she's done well in this case if her actions go unpunished see my sister's child closer to me by blood than anyone belonging to my house who worships Zeus and our older but she'll not escape my harshest punishment her sister too whom I had used as well she had an equal part in all their plans to do this burial in a palace combined out of control some kind of fit in the dark their minds often convict them in advance betray their treachery how I despise a person caught committing evil acts who then dares to and kill me what more do you want me nothing with that then why delay there's nothing in your words that I enjoy may not always be the case and what I say despises you as much but where could I gain greater glory than setting my own brother in his grave would confirm these pieces then if their lips were and feared and sealed by fear being king which offers all sorts of various benefits means you can talk and act just as you wish in all of Thebes you are the only one who sees things in that way they share my views but they keep their mouth shut just for you these views of yours so different from the rest have you no shame in your actions no there's nothing shameful in honoring my mother's children you had a brother who died for the other side yes from the same mother and father too why then give tribute to the other one his name but his dead corpse won't back up what you say yes he will if you give honors to the evil but the one who died was not some slave it was his own brother who was destroying the other fell defending it that may be but Hades still desires his rights to be an equal portion to that which we give the evil who knows in the world below perhaps such actions are not a crime an enemy can never be is to love not to hate so this was the 20th century let us see the 21st century right the translator is Mr. Sir Richard the Labour House General and he was born in Scotland in 1841 and he died in 1905 and at the end he was a professor for antiques studies etc in Cambridge so both were academics and even here we don't know when he did this translation but probably it smells like the 19th century that's what's interesting about this transition ok, thank you Thou Thou's whose face is bent to earth does Thou allow or disavow the deed I allow it I make no denial now tell me Thou not even a word but briefly no more Thou didn't eat it had forbidden this it was public and Thou dis indeed failed to transgress the law yes it was not Zeus that had published me that edit not such are the laws set among men by the justice who dwells with the gods below nor did Thou that Thy decrees were of such force that a mortal could override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven in their life is not of today or yesterday but from all time and no man knows when they were first put forth to a dread of any human pride could I answer to the gods for breaking these even without Thy edits but if I am to die before my time I count for when anyone is as I do come past about with evils can such and one find hope but gain in death so for me this doom is a trifling grief but if I had suffered my mother's time to lying death and unburied force that would have grieved me for this I am not grieved and if my present deeds are foolish in Thy sight it may be that a foolish judge arrays my folly yet I would have the know that our stubborn spirits almost often humbled to the stiffest iron baked to hardness in the fire that thou shalt off see snap and shiver I have known forces that show temper brought to order by a short current there is no room for pride in someone who is his neighbor's slave this girl was already first in insolence when she transgressed the laws that had been set forth and not done low! a second insult to want of this an exalt in her deed now verily I am not the man here she is if this deed of her goes unpunished no, be my sister's child or hear what she mean by that anyone who worships Zeus at the altar of my home she and her king's vote will find an exit most often for I charge the other with a like share in plotting this burial submit her for I have seen her now with engraving in the palace mistress none of who waits so off before the dean the mindsland self-convicted in its treason when folks are planning mischief in the dark but verily this too is hateful when one have been caught in wickedness then seeks to make would thou do more than take me and slay me no more easy with that I then dust down the lift in thy discourse there is not that pleases me never may there be and so my words must needs be unpleasing to be and yet glory whence could I have won a nobler than by giving burial to my own brother and here would own that they thought it well where not their lips sealed by fear but loyalty blessed in so much besides have the power to do and say what it will thou differest from all these demons in thy view they also share it but they curb their tongues for thee and thou are not ashamed to act apart from them there is nothing shameful impeded to a brother was it not a brother too that died in the opposite cause brother by the same mother and the same sire why then is impetuous inside the dead man would not say that he so deems it yes yes and thou make it an equal in honor as with the evil was his brother not his slave that perish wasting this land he fell as its champion never will us hate his desires in his rights but the good desires not a life portion as with the evil who knows but this seems blameless in the world below Ananami I'm a career director and I also teach at Amherst College in Massachusetts I first want to thank the Ananami Festival for inviting me to take part in this wonderful workshop and to Professor Gatainal he's been here for inviting me you're going to see two scenes I'm going to talk a little bit about the first scene the first scene is translated from in Greek obviously to English by the poetess Anne Carson in 2015 in Canada so it's a very very modern translation was originally made for the evil of an offer production which will be announced in the lead role so let's see this I'm sure that there are also actors in the scene besides me which I will find out in a second okay so I just wanted to say thank you before we start to the wonderful actors Manilaus Kibirisis and Lafmice Crombell so we are about to start the press conference please turn off your cell phones we don't like to have any noises in the audience thank you are you ready for us to start yes some time thank you please come in we're ready to start and you with your hat down you're the one you did the deed you do not deny it I did the deed answer me this in no long speeches you knew this deed to be forbidden by decree of course I did and yet you dare to disobey the law well if you call that law does not justice does not what they call law did not begin today or yesterday when they say law they do not mean a decree of today or yesterday they mean the unwritten unfaultery unshakable ordinances of the gods that no human being can ever outrun these laws live forever no one knows how they were born and you thought I would transgress them for fear of some me immortal men's decree no no of course I will die creano no crea and death is fine death has no pain to live my mother son lying out there unburied that would be pain you say this is folly I say who knows folly better than a fool no sense of compromise but the soul is wrong as our father please really here is something to ponder say we have a piece of iron that is baked in the fire till it's super hard I can show you how to and I have seen horses spirited horses broken down to a tiny tiny bit slaves shouldn't think big this girl knew her act was criminal when she broke the law that I decreed criminal insulting and wrong the first time all the more wrong the second time and yes she boast of it she laughs surely surely I am not a man here she is the man if she shall win this trick and walk away I don't care if she is my sister's child I don't care if she is nearer to me than any member of my family I don't care if she's protected by Zeus himself she will not evade doom I know they're in it together why don't you bring that one in here too I saw her just now in the house getting hysterical so the criminal mind betrays itself does it not I hate people who try to glamourize a crime once they've been caught what do you desire other than my dad nothing whatsoever then can we get this over with I take no pleasure in your words nor you in mine and yes what greater glory could I win than to lay my own brother in his grave these people here would all agree with me if they weren't terrified one man rule has its advantages does it a person in thieves who sees things this way no actually they all do but you nailed an attempt to the floor you are not ashamed no shame of honouring one's king wasn't the other brother your kin too same mother, same father yet you don't mind just gracing him he will not call a distress of course he will you are honouring his enemy he was no slave my dad he was his brother the one the criminal the other a defender of our land death needs to have death's rules obeyed the same rule for good and evil for patriots and traitor who knows how these definitions work down there enemy is always enemy alive or dead and someone born to share in love not hatred then go down below and lavish your love upon your dead I will not be bested by a woman the version that you are going to see of the same scene is in another ancient language in Hebrew but actually in modern Hebrew the translator is another poet from Israel Shimon Juzadlo and he translated that at the beginning of the 2000s or the 1990s before the wrong statement so we are going to see Professor Gath Kainal and Ahuva Kainal as Antigua from Israel he is the one who made it I made it I did not make it I am a little without words you know the truth not to do it I know and I still know all of them and in any case they are going to break the law yes because that is not the way to break this law and make it a human being the laws of you the laws of the image there is no place to go until the law is passed the laws are not written they do not use that the laws are not today and not tomorrow these are always and there is no one who knows when they will start there is no hope to break the law and to stand up to the law in front of a human being just because of the fear of being a human being look without you I know that who is he and if he dies in front of me I see this as a threat if you want me I will kill you how could you not see the threat no I prefer to know the threat to die in front of me no I will kill you now I will kill you I will kill you I will kill you the house of the house is like a house that is not a house look the most important thing is the first thing to do and the most important thing is to be brave and to be tough not to see what you see to be honest and to be honest you really want to to kill a lot of people with all your strength with all your strength with all your strength with all your strength I will kill you until now he is trying to regret what he did I think I did an act and also if he is my brother or closer to him with all my strength he is my brother I will kill you look I see the threat in front of me Yes, yes, but more importantly, I love her! How much I love her! I have a passion for her! I have a passion for her! Even more, I love her! I hate her! You hate me? Me? Nothing. It's enough for me. I love you. Let me hear your voice. And you too, Nene. There's no big deal between me. I'm going to take the most out of this place. I'm sure that all these people will take advantage of this effort, and they will surely do what they want. He's not afraid, he's not afraid of what will happen. But in the end, there will be a lot of people who will do whatever they want. Think like that. They will think like that, too. But they will give up. And if there's a chance, they will give up. Do you really want to give up? And Teocles? The son of our father? Is he not your brother? Yes, my brother. He's their brother, and he's his mother. Why do you treat me like an idiot? And what's bothering you? Teocles' anger won't stop. It won't stop, Nene. If you don't mind, I'll take care of her. I don't want to see you. It's my brother. Ah, that's it. I'm ready to kill him. I'll kill him. I'll kill him. In any case, Ades, there's a question. Do you have any idea what's going on between them? The good man doesn't want to see anything. Who knows? Maybe you'll find out soon enough. Ah, the good man doesn't want to see anything. He wants to kill me. He doesn't want to see anything. Then I'll kill you. If you want to kill me, I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you.