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MYSTERIOUS: Antigone - You Need To See This

The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic

Mary-Louise Parker gives a powerhouse performance in a three-part drama that cuts up Aeschylus’s chronology and adds shades of other plays

The Guardian - UK

‘It really bores me’: Wayne McGregor on why he won’t spell out his striking dance creations

The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: The Lion King, Churchill in Moscow, The Other Place and more

An anniversary show for the pride of Disney, a secret meeting of wartime leaders and a very modern Antigone are among this month’s highlights

The Guardian - UK

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The Other Place review – a searing, gasp-inducing take on Sophocles

Every performance is compelling in this rivetingly naturalistic modern-day reworking of Antigone, written by Alexander Zeldin

The Guardian - UK

The Other Place at the National Theatre review: Emma D’Arcy is riveting in this elegant, atmospheric take on Greek tragedy

The House of the Dragon star is part of a crack ensemble who all shine in this modern update of Sophocles’ Antigone

Evening Standard

Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten review – a madcap satire on the refugee crisis

A nurse battles to give a dead Somali refugee a dignified burial as the English police set out to retrieve his body and cover up their crime

The Guardian - UK

A hero's body: Greek tragedy and Navalny

How Sophocles' wrenching tragedy "Antigone," written 2,500 years ago, prefigured the aftermath of Navalny's death

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The exquisite physical comedy of Dirty Birds: a new Aussie post-COVID Theatre of the Absurd

Theatre is littered with sister double acts: Antigone and Ismene, Kate and Bianca, Blanche and Stella, Fleabag and Claire. The shared history of sisters delivers inbuilt emotional stakes and lots of baggage. The doubling of experience brings both love and rivalry, the joys of being known and the horrors of…

The Conversation

What Greek mythology teaches us about women’s resistance and rebellion

After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have also been leaving the workforce since the COVID-19 pandemic, in many cases to care for children and elderly…

The Conversation

Litty Committee: Pour Yrself An Iced Tea And Lap Up The Best New Books Out This Feb

Read it and weep (for yr bank account).

Pedestrian.tv

Friendship, humanity are put to the test amid the most horrific of circumstances in ‘The Island’

Brotherhood, tyranny, unjust incarceration, revolution — there’s much to unpack thematically in “The Island,” but director Gabrielle Randle-Bent propels the dialogue with a clarity that shines like a knife and an urgency that can’t be denied.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Cassidy Hutchinson and Greek tragedy show that courage is rare and cowardice more common

Ever since former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s remarkable testimony in the recent January 6 committee hearing, I’ve been thinking – as I’m sure many people have – about courage. Seeking analogies in literature, I think of two women from Greek mythology: Antigone and Iphigenia.

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Love Island's Jay Younger clashes with Jacques after two islanders dumped

Tension was rising between Love Island's Jay and Jacques after last night's elimination and viewers were quick to hit back, thinking they had spotted a 'red flag'.

Manchester Evening News

ITV Love Island fans spot problem during Antigoni's arrival in the villa

The singer-songwriter is one of the latest bombshells to spice things up in the ITV dating show

The Independent UK

Front-line nurses star in online staging of play 'Antigone'

During the pandemic, people have made a lot of noise about nurses, cheering them on and banging pots and pans

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