Adapted from the famous Greek play “Antigone”, the first written and the last in the timeline of Sophocles’ Theban trilogy, Antigone – Âm Mù is XplusX Studio’s newest staging. By adopting the philosophical concept of Singularity as the main theme for this interpretation of the classic tragedy, we start our first experiments in Immersive Theater, aiming to bring a new unique theatrical experience to the audience. The stage design is site-specific, and the audience is invited to move around, actively engaged by interacting with any element of artistic setting throughout the screening.
The stage performance of the original play ‘Antigone’ which was pre-recorded using the form of a multi-dimensional video call, had its premiere last November on a virtual platform named Discord. This first screening was displayed simultaneously with constructed, polyphonical responsive scripts to create a sense of the virtual world where the adaptation takes place. The second screening was presented at the Goethe-Institut, where the play was placed in a post-event setting, a banquet of what remains - Antigone exists no more, there is only projection, retelling, replay.
At Manzi Art Space this April, once again, Antigone - Âm Mù will be staged and presented in a new version. A totally new stage promises new experiences awaiting the audience.
The project is supported by the
Goethe-Institut Hanoi as part of the Antigone season
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Artistic Team
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Hà Nguyên Long (*1990) | Director / Scenographer
Hà Nguyên Long is a Theatre Director and Scenographer based in both Paris and Hanoi. As a scenographer in Paris, he has worked with Théâtre de Bastille Paris, Scène National de St Nazaire, Theatre Festival d'Avignon, and Cuirieu Theatre Festival. As the director of XplusX Studio, he has directed two performances: "Sơn Hậu - Beyond the Mountain" and "A Stage Reading|ORESTEIA by Aeschylus".
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Nguyễn Quang Kiếm (*1995) | Project and Stage Manager / Concept writer of the Interactive script
Nguyễn Quang Kiếm had backgrounds in Marketing, Film Directing, and Literature. A Hanoi-based art & cultural organizer, a community builder, and a creative at Long Year in Theatre since its foundation. In Antigone - Âm Mù, he wrote the concept, researched, interpreted and consulted with the creative team on the interactive script, recruited and managed the production crew.
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Nhung Nguyen - aka Sound Awakener (*1998) | Composer / Sound engineer
Nhung Nguyen is an emerging Vietnamese sound artist currently based in Hanoi, experimenting across a range of left-field aesthetics and expressions – ambient drone, electro acoustic, noise music, musique concrete, amongst others. Since 2014 Nhung has been making works under the moniker Sound Awakener – and under her real name, for the more cinematic, piano-driven projects. She has worked with international labels such as Time Released Sound (US), Unknown Tones Records (US), Soft (France), Flaming Pines (UK), Fluid Audio (UK), Syrphe (Germany). In addition to her solo work, Nhung has collaborated with artists from various other disciplines, often adding audio elements to visual experiences. Nhung’s music and sounds have appeared in exhibitions such as Liberation Radio (2021), Citizen Earth (2020, Hanoi), Le Giang’s D'eau et de verdure (2020, Hanoi), Phan Thao Nguyen’s Poetic Amnesia (HCMC and Hanoi, 2017), the public-art initiatives Into Thin Air (2016) and Into Thin Air 2 (2018) – both in Hanoi, Richard Streimatter-Tran’s Departures (Hong Kong, 2017), amongst others. As a composer for moving image, Nhung has also worked on music compositions for short films and video art.
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Nguyễn Hồng Ánh (*2001) | Chief writer/editor of the Interactive scripts
Nguyễn Hồng Ánh participated in XplusX Studio’s Stage Reading: Oresteia by Aeschylus as Assistant Stage Manager and Dramaturgy Assistant. In Antigone - Âm Mù, she’s in charge of the interactive script, in which she wrote most of the stories and led the editing process. Beyond XplusX Studio, Anh is also a writer, a filmmaker, and currently, a BA student in English (Creative Writing) at Denison University, OH, USA.
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Vũ Hoàng Long (*1998) | Marketing manager
Vũ Hoàng Long is a researcher in the field of Media & Cultural Studies, a blogger, and a writer. Notable publications: Collective Forgetting and Domestic “Xenophobia” (Southeast Asian Media Studies); “Attending a specialized school: Perspectives” (Thanh Niên Publisher). “Media and Culture Studies from the Perspective of Affect Theory”; “Old Tet” – Constructing Collective Memories (Journal of Cultural Studies in Viet Nam). Currently, he hosts the blog “Nguoi Ke Chuyen”, and is a contributor at “Vietcetera”.
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Sam Nguyễn (*) | Graphic Designer
Sam Nguyễn is a cross-disciplinary doer.
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Vũ Tiến Duy (*1995) | Co-writer of the Interactive scripts
Vũ Tiến Duy is a filmmaker and a cinema guru, who claimed to be the chief of Xi Nghiep Dien Anh Thang Long - a personal blog, writing about film criticism, film analysis and organizing movie screening events at different locations. In 2020, Duy made his first independent short film Land of Fire.
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Trần Hiền Mai (*2001) | Co-writer of the Interactive scripts
Trần Hiền Mai is a philosophy student at The American College of Greece.
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Nguyễn Khánh Linh aka LOONY (*1996) | Costume designer
Nguyễn Khánh Linh studied Fashion Design at Hanoi College of Arts, and Art Critic and History at Vietnam University of Fine Arts. She is currently working as a Teaching Assistant of the art department at Greensum Academy and participating in several freelance art projects.
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Maria Papadomanolaki (*1980) | Musician
Maria Papadomanolaki is a transmission artist and composer based in Greece. Papadomanolaki has studied linguistics and literature at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki before moving on to sound art and sound studies, having completed a PhD on the topic ‘Sonic Perceptual Ecologies’ at CRISAP, LCC, UAL. Her work and research focus on the role of sound in the way we engage with our environments, with memory, placemaking and perception. Special importance is placed on the synergy of electroacoustic and electronic music, transmission art and creative ecological practices.
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Út Quyên (*1987) | Co-translator/Editor
Quyen Pham is an independent writer, translator, and coordinator and organizer from Hanoi, Vietnam. She has been working as a program manager at Heritage Space - an independent art space in Hanoi - and got involved in planning and operating multidisciplinary creative events and projects with other art centers in the city since 2018. She also works as Communication Officer at Mekong Cultural Hub - an initiative which offers personal and professional development opportunities for creative cultural practitioners in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Taiwan. Quyen is currently studying the International Master of the Arts Program in Cultural and Creative Industries (IMCCI) at Taipei National University of the Arts.
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Phạm Ngọc Minh Thư (*2002) | Stage Manager 2
Phạm Ngọc Minh Thư is a student at Monash University, pursuing Film and Screen. She is also the coordinator of a non profit project, Espelune, where she directed her first independent short film.
Actors and Actresses
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Trần Thiên Tú (*1991) as Antigone / Eurydice
Trần Thiên Tú graduated from Shandong Academy of Art, China on Performing, and is working on her Master Degree on Theatre Directing at Pekin National Academy of Performing Arts, China. Tu has starred in many movies and cinematic projects since her early years, notably “Ao Lua Ha Dong” (2006), “Immortal Legend“ (2009), “Tim han vet seo” (2018), “For June” (2010) and “Invisible Evidence” (2020), “Biet thi noi, khong biet thi boi” (2021).
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Hong MA (*1985) as Creon
Hong MA graduated from Hanoi University of Architecture (HAU, Hanoi Architectural University), and after that, became an actor and a filmmaker, a member of TPD Center for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents. In 2021, he played in “Life and its double”, an experimental theatre project by Trương Quế Chi at Manzi Art Space.
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Phạm Bảo Ngọc (*1996) as Ismene
Phạm Bảo Ngọc is a member of ATH Drama and Art Space, Hanoi DocLab in 2019 and Viplayback Theatre Group since 2019. Ngoc has participated as an actress in “The fly” by J.P.Sartre, directed by Quentin Delorme (2019), “Oresteia by Aeschylus”, directed by Ha Nguyen Long (2020), and “The exception and the rule” by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Quentin Delorme (2020), and “Life and its double”, an experimental theatre project by Trương Quế Chi (2021).
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Trần Quang Huy (*1999) as Haemon
Trần Quang Huy studied Acting in Hanoi University of Theatre and Cinema, and Theatre Directing at Pekin National Academy of Performing Arts. Huy has participated as an actor and singer in several plays and art projects in universities.
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Nguyễn Duy Anh Tuấn (*1997) as Guard / Tiresias
Nguyễn Duy Anh Tuấn graduated from Hanoi College of Art in Drama and Cinema Acting in 2020. He is now an actor of the Drama Theatre of Police. Anh Tuan starred in many projects for television and social media channels, such as An Ninh TV and Youtube.
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Nguyễn Thu Hậu (*1980) as Messenger
Nguyễn Thu Hậu is a member of Viplayback Theatre Group, and has participated as an actress in “Stage Reading: ORESTEIA by Aeschylus”, directed by Hà Nguyên Long in 2020. In 2021, she played in Drama & Improvisation performance in the Festivals of Drama and Improvisation, organized by ATH Art Space.
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Yết Yết (*1995) as Chorus
Yết Yết is a guitarist and a music producer, and currently playing at "Me2Band", an all-girl band based in Hanoi.
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Hương Trà (@nopoemforclaudia) (*1998) as Chorus
Hương Trà is a multimedia practitioner, with works ranging from poetic expression to experimental photo/audio/video art. She participated in "I (write) in Vietnamese" exhibition, "thơughtful" series, and collaborated on some other programs.
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Minh Ánh (*1996) as Chorus
Minh Ánh is a community worker, currently working at iSEE Institute as an Ethnic Minority program officer.
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Minh Tâm (*1999) as Chorus
Minh Tâm has just graduated Foreign Trade University. She is an eager beaver at writing, works in marketing and has never had any intention of experimenting with acting. Before joining “Antigone - Âm Mù” as an actress, she was the content writer at “COMPLEX 01”, a cultural venue/mall which was renovated from an old factory, featuring local brands and workshops.
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Nguyễn Bình Minh (1999) as Chorus
Nguyễn Bình Minh plays several parts in “Antigone - Âm Mù” production : the content writer, the technical supervisor, an interactive script co-writer, and a member of the chorus. Outside these parts, He’s also a podcaster at “Union Hub”, where he does interviews with marginalized young artists/researchers about their works and social issues.
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