“Antigone à la nuit,” part of the Fête du Théâtre, presents Sophocle’s timeless tragedy in an extraordinary outdoor setting where Françoise Boillat embodies the rebellious heroine before seven remarkable century-old trees in Chêne-Bougeries. Co-directed by Boillat and Guillaume Béguin, this performance transforms these ancient witnesses into silent observers of human struggles between law, nature, and freedom. Drawing inspiration from Romain Gary’s “Les Racines du Ciel,” the production questions our capacity to respect nature’s living freedom without utility or purpose beyond its own existence.
In French.
