Monthly Archives: December 2025

Antigone by Brenda Joy Addie

Theatre Travel

ANTIGONE — a work in emergence

Last week I held a private reading of Antigone, a one-act play written and directed as part of The Hecuba Project: Voices of Grief, Seeds of Hope.

The work reimagines the ancient archetype of Antigone in a contemporary setting, retaining the chorus, ritual structure, and moral ferocity of Greek tragedy while speaking directly to women’s lived experience today.

This reading was not a performance but a listening: a chance to hear the language in the body, to test rhythm, breath, silence, and choral force. The work is still evolving — as all living theatre must — but it has now spoken clearly enough to begin its journey into the world.

Antigone is written for minimal staging and outdoor or in-the-round performance. It is conceived for intimate amphitheatres, small halls, and resonant public spaces where voice, presence, and audience proximity matter.

The full script is available on request for programming, production, or festival consideration.

More to come.

Hecuba Rising

Theatre Travel

Well we know that truth is stranger than fiction. Thankfully the energy of truth has a synchronicity that traverses the universe in its own way, in its own time and lands in precisely the perfect way. The Hecuba Project is reflective of such energy and has begun to gather a momentum that brings form and identity to the Hecuba archetype.

No longer just an idea, The Hecuba Project has received many submissions from women choosing to include their expressions in the collective fruit bowl of ‘voice’.

Voice/expression comes in many forms: written expression in poetry, essay, reminiscence, reflection, playwriting. It also comes in drawing, painting, photography and quilting and gardening and magic and ritual. Indeed Hecuba lives!

Together we have embraced our Queen of Lament and brought her forward to become our Queen of Hope.

As our project grows even more, we look forward to harnessing the voices in gatherings, festivals, performances and publications.

We welcome all to explore the energy of Hecuba in the 21st century. With her continuing grace and direction for all women throughout our world, no woman is alone. Hecuba guides and leads us to become the Seeds of Hope. And so it is.