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

Claudio Ctin6 hours ago5 hours ago1 mins

Lyttelton theatre, LondonEvery performance is compelling in this rivetingly naturalistic modern-day reworking of Antigone, written by Alexander Zeldin This modern family psychodrama bills itself “after Antigone”, and seems at first like a bare-boned distillation of the Sophoclean tragedy. Alexander Zeldin’s sleek reworking, performed without an interval, certainly cuts to the chase. We meet a modern…

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