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'Antigone: This Play I Read in High School' updates Greek tragedy as pro-choice allegory (Off Broadway review)

by Thom Geier

Sophocles is having a moment. Robert Ickes' Oedipus, recently on Broadway, recast the title character as an Obama-like political upstart facing down birtherism allegations, while Lee Zeldin's The Other Place (which played at The Shed this winter) reimagined Antigone as a dysfunctional family drama with an undercurrent of incest. Now Anna Ziegler takes her crack […]

SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00pm on March 11, 2026