Tickets for one of the major shows of next year's Edinburgh International Festival are to go on sale on November 29.
Antigone, starring Juliette Binoche, is the first show to have tickets on sale for the first festival of new director Fergus Linehan.
Celebrated stage and screen actress Binoche plays Antigone in a contemporary version of Sophokles's tragedy, newly translated by T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Anne Carson and directed by one of the world's leading theatre director, Ivo van Hove.
It will run from August 9 - 22 August at Edinburgh's King's Theatre.
This move marks the first of three launches of the 2015 Festival programme over the coming months, another major change for the festival under its new leadership.
On Tuesday 3 February the Festival will reveal the concerts and recitals next summer and offer audiences a chance to book tickets.
And on Wednesday 18 March the full programme will be revealed including its theatre, dance and opera performances for August 2015.
The Festival runs Friday 7 to Monday 31 August 2015, aligning it with the city's other festivals in August.
Ivo van Hove said: "While searching for a play for our first collaboration, Juliette and I very quickly agreed that Antigone would be the right artistic challenge for both of us. The play itself has the explosiveness of a nuclear bomb. It deals with all possible relationships: man against woman, political against ethical leadership, the laws of society against the right of the individual, family and its unbreakable blood ties.
"Antigone should resonate with everyone the world over. It feels natural to make this production in the context of an international collaboration between the Barbican, Luxembourg and my own Toneelgroep Amsterdam. It is very important that high level collaborations get produced at a time when people have a tendency to stick together behind their own borders. Art can change the world."
This Barbican and Les Théâtres de la Ville, Luxembourg co-production with the Edinburgh International Festival receives its world premiere in Luxembourg in February 2015 followed by the UK premiere at the Barbican in March. It opens at the Edinburgh International Festival on Sunday 9 August.
Mr Linehan, Festival Director added: 'We're thrilled to be supporting the creation of this new production of Antigone that brings together three great artists - director Ivo van Hove, writer Anne Carson and actor Juliette Binoche. Antigone is a work, which has lost none of its relevance or resonance and I am sure it will be a centrepiece of the 2015 festival season.
'We are also very pleased to be able to put these performances on sale now, giving local festival goers and visitors, time to plan their diaries. In addition, we will be announcing our concert and recital seasons in a separate February launch, with the full programme of performances announced in mid-March. This is part of an effort to release information to the public as early as possible to assist them in planning their summer visits to Edinburgh and Scotland.'
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