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X'ntigone review " culture wars rage before Freedom Day in Thebes

by Helen Meany

Abbey, DublinThe political intrigues muddy the drama of conscience but this is a sleek futuristic staging of Sophocles' tragedy, adapted by Darren Murphy A defiant young woman imprisoned in a perspex cube no longer wants to be called Antigone. Darren Murphy's new adaptation of the Greek tragedy seems similarly ambivalent about its origins, as if unsure whether to shrug off the original entirely. In his reduced versio…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:12pm on March 18, 2022