Written by Kevin Kerr

Directed by Jonathon Young

World Premiere: November 3–15, 2026

Produced by Electric Company Theatre

Presented at the Heart of the City Festival in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre

Epigone is a modern myth about complicated grief and our responsibilities to the dead.

At a time of plague and widespread fear, an estranged brother and sister are reunited in a distant landscape that sits between the realms of the living and the dead. Burdened by family secrets and the stigma and shame of addictions, each sibling has been summoned to perform a perform a risky rite of passage. The brother’s mission is to save his sister; the sister’s mission is to save the world. 

Epigone is a work of auto-fiction (a fictionalized and dramatized account of author’s lived experiences) that is inspired by Sophocles' Theban Cycle (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone). 

Development of Epigone has been supported by Vancity Community Foundation; and the Elsie and Audrey Jang Fund, held at Vancouver Foundation.