Full company announced for Nina Segal's ANTIGONE EXITS at Chichester Festival Theatre
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The final production of Chichester’s Festival 2026, Antigone Exits by Nina Segal, has its world premiere at the Minerva Theatre, directed by Jeff James, from 26 September - 17 October, with full casting announced today.
Antigone’s brother has died in a bloody civil war. The king – her uncle – has forbidden anyone to bury the body. Antigone is going to bury the body anyway.
Twenty-five centuries after Antigone, seven performers gather to re-tell the tale of what is buried and what comes of it. Ancient Greece crashes into the contemporary, as Sophocles' classic tragedy shines a scorching light onto our current world.
The cast includes Testimony Adegbite (The Primrose Railway Children) as Messenger, Brandon Bassir (The Grapes of Wrath, National Theatre) as Haemon, Max Bennett (Titus Andronicus, RSC) as Creon, Nina Cassells (Ballet Shoes, National Theatre) as Antigone, Anushka Chakravarti (The Crucible, National Theatre) as Ismene, Melody Chikakane Brown (The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, UK tour) as Tiresias, and Lizzy Watts (Hedda Gabler, National Theatre) as Eurydice.
The production will be designed by Alex Lowde, with lighting by Jo Joelson, music and sound by Kieran Lucas, movement direction by James Cousins, and casting by Bryony Jarvis-Taylor.