"Tiresias and Antigone are both outsiders who refuse to accept the restrictive political and sexual pigeonholes that patriarchal society imposes on them. As classic figures, they each in their own way offer a dissenting voice against dominant contemporary views. This is also why Toneelhuis director Guy Cassiers stages them together, as successive monologues with more or less the same scenography and the same soundtrack – String Quartet No. 15 by Dmitri Shostakovich."

"Aoulad excels in using the camera to subtly portray her role.... Damen lets the timbre of her voice dance through the words. Her body dances along. Watching her perform is pure pleasure."

"Addressing the audience, Aoulad conveys her character’s pain and resolute sense of justice with both elegance and quaking rage. In “Tiresias,” the actress Katelijne Damen recites a blistering, dizzying poem by the young British poet Kae Tempest, a subversive retelling of the myth of the blind, gender-fluid prophet. Damen’s rendition of the virtuosic text is shot through with grace and wit. Especially impressive was how the Toneelhuis’ wide-screen camerawork (shot by Charlotte Bouckaert, who is also responsible for the set) succeeded in capturing the power of chamber theater."

"Partly hanging over a table, Katelijne Damen sensually tells how Tiresias celebrates her femininity. With her silky tone, this great actress ... knows how to add her own colour to Tempest’s expressive language."