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An opportunity once again awaits amateur actors in Hermanus to strut their stuff on stage.

Julie Maree and the Hermanus Players plan to stage Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles's Antigone at the end of November this year.

It's theatre for a rainbow nation and will take the form of a supper theatre.

“We want to pay tribute to all the different cultures which have added to the colourful diversity of South African theatre,” says Maree

That is why they thought it fitting to start off by celebrating the Greek influence, because that is where the western theatre had its origin.

Rehearsals take place on Sunday from 17:30 to 19:00 and Monday and Wednesday from 18:30 to 20:00 at the St Peter's church hall. Male actors for the cast consisting of 12 actors (seven men and five women) are desperately needed.

The play will be staged on 30 November and 1-3 December in the St Peter's hall. Patrons will be treated to a Greek finger supper and wine, with tea, coffee and sweets served afterwards while the actors mingle with the audience.

Jean Anouilh's Antigone was first produced in Paris in 1942 when France was part of Hitler?s Europe and dictators and storm troops were the background to everyday life.

It is based on the Antigone of Sophocles, which was first performed in Athens in the fifth century BC. Its theme was nevertheless still topical in 1942, says Maree, for in Antigone's reiterated “No!” to Creon the audience saw its own resistance to the German occupation. The Germans allowed the play to be performed, presumably because they found Creon?s arguments for dictatorship convincing.

Maree describes Anouilh's Antigone as one of the masterpieces of modern French theatre.

For more information about the production and the audition, phone Maree on (028) 316-2262.

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