AntigoneWhen her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say ‘No’. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction. Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work, Ivo van Hove first enthralled London audiences with his ground-breaking Roman Tragediesseen at the Barbican in 2009. Drawing on his 'ability to break open texts calcified by tradition' (Guardian), the director now turns to a classic Greek masterpiece. |
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act of perfect alive Anne Carson another’s hands Antigone’s Argos bad judgment Barbican beloved birds blame blood bridal bride brother bury can’t caught child clever uncanny wondrous corpse criminal day we’ll lie dead CHORUS death KREON decree deed KREON dirt doesn’t dragging his dragging dust edict enemy enter Kreon Eteokles EURYDIKE wife eusebia evil exit Antigone exit Kreon father fear fiddling filth of Death girl gods grave HAIMON hate here’s Kreon perfect honour anarchy inbetween thing Juliette Binoche king listen living look Luxembourg man’s marvellous dreadful awful mind monstrous marvellous dreadful mother never Niobe perfect piety permanent elsewhere poached egg Polyneikes rage ruin seer she’s sister Sophokles strange terrible clever take Kreon TEIRESIAS tell terrible clever uncanny Thebes they’re think the gods thou uncanny wondrous monstrous verb what’s who’s whoever wife of Kreon woman won’t wondrous monstrous marvellous wouldn’t you’ll you’re right Zeus