FULL LENGTH: Set against the glittering and brutal machinery of Hollywood, COMPLICITY reimagines the ancient tragedy of Antigone for the age of #MeToo. The play follows Tig Kennedy, a former teenage star who returns to Los Angeles after years in exile to reclaim her agency and confront the system that once exploited her. When Tig and her sister Sima, now her manager, enter the industry’s upper ranks, they discover that the same men who built their careers—figures like studio executive Nigel Kent and producer Lilia Gordon—are the architects of its corruption.

Spanning 2008 to 2022, the play moves through studios, red carpets, and boardrooms as Tig begins filming a documentary that exposes a network of abuse, complicity, and cover-ups. Her investigation forces her to face her own silence and the cost of speaking out. In the tradition of Antigone, Tig defies the unspoken “laws” of her world—the NDAs, the gaslighting, the culture of obedience—to honor the buried stories of women who were silenced. Her act of truth-telling becomes both rebellion and ritual: an unburial of what the industry refuses to see.
By the time Tig’s film wins a Golden Globe, the play has transformed the stage into a media chorus of paparazzi, projections, and televised applause. In her acceptance speech, she declares, “Silence is complicity,” turning the glamour of the awards stage into a moral tribunal. But the final projection—“Weinstein conviction overturned”—reminds us that justice, like in Sophocles’ tragedy, comes too late.
At once mythic and contemporary, COMPLICITY asks: what does resistance look like inside a system that survives on silence? And how does a woman’s act of defiance—like Antigone’s burial—become both her undoing and her legacy?

[CW// strobe lights, a gunshot, and discussion of r*pe/sexual assault and impacts]