Writer-director Alexander Zeldin strips away the complexities of Sophocles's plot to illuminate brilliantly why a ...
And now comes Alexander Zeldin’s ice cold take on Sophocles’ Antigone, relocated to a slick soulless modern living room where ...
This eternal dilemma hums and throbs relentlessly from the start of these hurtling two interval-free hours, as political ...
After Antigone’s two brothers are killed while fighting each other for the throne of Thebes, the kingdom’s new ruler, Creon, declares that only one brother will receive a proper burial ...
The Other Place comes with the subtitle After Antigone, so you might expect an updating of Sophocles’s great tragedy. But Zeldin, 39, has barely arrived in a small room in the theatre before he ...
Alexander Zeldin spins Greek myth into modern psychodrama at London’s National Theatre, with Emma D’Arcy and Tobias Menzies on stunning form ...
However good those productions are, they will have to be exceptional to match the sheer cathartic power of Alexander Zeldin’s ...
I wonder if those same instincts ultimately shaped this overegged, psychosexual take on Sophocles’s Antigone, which might be coming from a place of compassion for the vulnerable, but ends up ...
And now comes Alexander Zeldin’s ice cold take on Sophocles’ Antigone, relocated to a slick soulless modern living room where Chris, his wife Erica, and two nieces Issy and Annie have gathered ...