Sophocles
Antigone review – a poetic tragedy about modern British Muslim life
Inua Ellams updates the Sophoclean drama into a beguiling piece about faith and prejudice, and casts a suspicious eye at politicians who betray their own communities
Arifa Akbar
11, Sep, 2022 @11:57 AM
Home Office policies take centre stage in modern-day Antigone adaptation
Inua Ellams adaptation nods to Shamima Begum, stop and search, Prevent programme and police surveillance
Amelia Gentleman
09, Sep, 2022 @11:57 AM
Antigone review – an explosive hour of fireworks
The music and visual effects dazzle in this 2018 update of Sophocles’ tragedy from the Classical Theatre of Harlem
Arifa Akbar
19, May, 2022 @2:00 PM
X’ntigone review – culture wars rage before Freedom Day in Thebes
The political intrigues muddy the drama of conscience but this is a sleek futuristic staging of Sophocles’ tragedy, adapted by Darren Murphy
Helen Meany
18, Mar, 2022 @8:00 PM
Aaliyah: After Antigone review – Sophocles’s moral dilemmas play out in Bradford
Struggling zero-hours sisters risk everything as Kamal Kaan’s angsty play transplants the action from Ancient Greece
Mark Fisher
11, Oct, 2021 @5:00 AM
Antigone review – gender switch sparks striking take on Sophocles
Wendy Kweh plays Creon as a politically minded queen in Merlynn Tong’s adaptation steeped in grief and decay
Chris Wiegand
08, Oct, 2021 @7:00 PM
Age of Antigone: Sophocles’s arresting tale of the debt we owe the dead
With three new versions on stage this month, the ancient Greek classic – and its reflections on authority and devotion – remains as compelling as ever
Michael Billington
04, Oct, 2021 @8:28 AM
The week in theatre: Paradise; 2:22: A Ghost Story – review
Lesley Sharp is magnetic in Kae Tempest’s ferocious reworking of Sophocles, while Lily Allen makes a spookily quiet West End debut
Susannah Clapp
15, Aug, 2021 @9:30 AM
‘The best summer of my life’ – Kae Tempest takes Sophocles on a gender odyssey
The writer has turned a Greek tragedy about a marooned soldier into an all-women play for the Covid era. They reveal how its creation mirrored their own journey
Kate Wyver
05, Aug, 2021 @5:00 AM
Six of the best plays about confinement | Michael Billington
Dramatists have long focused on the agonies and irritations of self-imposed or enforced isolation
Michael Billington
03, Apr, 2020 @5:00 AM
The Antigone uprising: gilets jaunes and Catalan protests spark new myth
A new version of Sophocles’ tragedy draws on the political turbulence in the home countries of its choreographer and performer
Róisín O'Brien
10, Feb, 2020 @4:02 PM
Antigone review – a mesmerising tragedy with sisterhood at heart
Superb performances by Annabel Baldwin and Rachel Hosker capture the intimacy and grief of this fearlessly revisionist retelling of Sophocles’ drama
Arifa Akbar
13, Jan, 2020 @11:38 AM
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