Name: Q&A: Engaging With Politics Through Art
Start: 2025-02-27T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Møllegade 7, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark

Antigone [on strike] was developed in partnership with St. Matthew?s Church in Bethnal Green and through ACE-funded community workshops with students and teachers at the Oakland School in Bethnal Green. Working with the students made it clear to us that online commentary and participation is the only way to engage with politics and social issues for many young people. The students also raised questions about the characters and views represented that helped us develop the play?s central themes further. The workshops convinced us that there is a need and thirst for finding a way to engage with politics and social issues through art.
Therefore, we decided to create a series of workshops that would achieve exactly that and would engage young people before coming to see the performance.
Meet the writer and director Alexander Raptotasios for a Q&A about his work with community engagement and then using that work as the inspiration for creating his art.
And don't forget to get your tickets for Antigone [on strike] after the Q&A.
Alexander Rapotastios:
Artistic director of Ferodo Bridges CIC. Graduate of LAMDA (MA Directing), St. Mary?s University (MA Physical Theatre) and Brighton University (BA Theatre Performance & Visual Arts).
Directing credits include: ?Antigone? by Sophocles (Commission by Athens International Festival, 2022), ?The Events? by David Greig (National Greek Opera & National Tour, 2020-21), ?The White Plague? adapted from Jose Saramago?s Blindness (UK National Tour & Online binaural experience, 2019-2021), ?Hotel Apocalypse? (Bageion, 2018), Macbeth (The Pleasance London, 2018), Across the Border (Battersea Arts Centre, Korean International Festival of Theatre, Miryang Theatre Performance Festival ? Winner of Best New Director and Best New Play, S. Korea, 2012)