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Sophocles

January 2024

  • Hans Kesting as Oedipus and Marieke Heebink as Jocaste

    Mother of all messes as two Oedipus productions announced in London

    Old Vic announces play starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma just 30 minutes after Wyndham’s confirms Robert Icke staging

January 2023

  • ‘What misery to be wise’ … Greg Hicks as Tiresias in The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles at the National Theatre in 1996.

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    Whether sad, fierce or downright murderous, these clairvoyant figures have enthralled writers from Sophocles to Charlotte Brontë and Hilary Mantel

September 2022

  • Reluctant rebel … Zainab Hasan as Antigone in a new version by Inua Ellams at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London.

    Antigone review – a poetic tragedy about modern British Muslim life

  • The cast of Inua Ellam's Antigone adaptation.

    Home Office policies take centre stage in modern-day Antigone adaptation

May 2022

  • Ardent … Antigone (Alexandria King) and Ismene (Ava McCoy) in Antigone.

    Antigone review – an explosive hour of fireworks

    The music and visual effects dazzle in this 2018 update of Sophocles’ tragedy from the Classical Theatre of Harlem

March 2022

  • xntigone<br>7. Eloise Stevenson in X ntigone after Sophocles by Darren Murphy at the Abbey Theatre until 26th March. Image c. Melissa Gordon

    X’ntigone review – culture wars rage before Freedom Day in Thebes

    The political intrigues muddy the drama of conscience but this is a sleek futuristic staging of Sophocles’ tragedy, adapted by Darren Murphy

October 2021

  • Burdened … Halema Hussain in Aaliyah: After Antigone.

    Lockdown culture
    Aaliyah: After Antigone review – Sophocles’s moral dilemmas play out in Bradford

    Struggling zero-hours sisters risk everything as Kamal Kaan’s angsty play transplants the action from Ancient Greece
  • ‘One Thebes’ …Wendy Kweh as Creon.

    Antigone review – gender switch sparks striking take on Sophocles

    Wendy Kweh plays Creon as a politically minded queen in Merlynn Tong’s adaptation steeped in grief and decay
  • Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker as Antigone in the National theatre’s 2012 production of Antigone

    Age of Antigone: Sophocles’s arresting tale of the debt we owe the dead

    With three new versions on stage this month, the ancient Greek classic – and its reflections on authority and devotion – remains as compelling as ever

August 2021

  • Lesley Sharp as Philoctetes in Paradise at the National Theatre.

    The week in theatre: Paradise; 2:22: A Ghost Story – review

  • ‘I took a step back and thought: Hang on a minute’ … Tempest, whose play Paradise is being staged by the National theatre.

    ‘The best summer of my life’ – Kae Tempest takes Sophocles on a gender odyssey

April 2020

  • Sofa, so claustrophobic … Toby Jones in Caryl Churchill’s Imp.

    Lockdown culture
    No exit: the best plays about confinement, from Sophocles to Sartre

    Dramatists have long focused on the agonies and irritations of self-imposed or enforced isolation

February 2020

  • Sense of urgency ... Solène Weinachter in Antigone, Interrupted.

    The Antigone uprising: gilets jaunes and Catalan protests spark new myth

    A new version of Sophocles’ tragedy draws on the political turbulence in the home countries of its choreographer and performer

January 2020

  • Rachel Hosker and Annabel Baldwin in Antigone

    Antigone review – a mesmerising tragedy with sisterhood at heart

    Superb performances by Annabel Baldwin and Rachel Hosker capture the intimacy and grief of this fearlessly revisionist retelling of Sophocles’ drama

August 2019

  • Gaite Jansen as Antigone, Hans Kesting as Oedipus and Marieke Heebink as Jocasta, in Robert Icke’s version of Oedipus, from Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, at King’s theatre, Edinburgh 2019.

    Oedipus review – Robert Icke's take exerts thriller-like grip

    An updating of Sophocles’ classic, set on election eve, has such political resonance you can imagine Boris Johnson not far away

June 2019

  • A new version of Oedipus, updated and directed by Robert Icke.

    Robert Icke: 'British theatre often thinks of itself as church'

    As his bold new Oedipus heads to Edinburgh, the director discusses revamping Sophocles and the ‘poisonous nostalgia’ behind Brexit

May 2019

  • The Duchess of Cambridge and her son Prince Louis at the 2019 Chelsea flower show.

    Brief letters
    Chelsea flower show a right royal pity for commoners’ kids

  • Prime Minister Theresa May attends church, Maidenhead, UK - 19 May 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by DAVID HARTLEY/REX/Shutterstock (10240828m) Prime Minister Theresa May and husband Philip May attend Morning Prayers Prime Minister Theresa May attends church, Maidenhead, UK - 19 May 2019

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July 2018

  • Juliette Binoche in Antigone at the Edinburgh International Festival 2015.

    Sophocles’ stories are ours as well

    Letters: Ancient tales ‘go to the dark core of human experience’, writes Harry Eyres

September 2017

  • Kamila Shamsie

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Kamila Shamsie and Preti Taneja on reimagining classics - books podcast

    The two novelists have used Greek tragedy and Shakespeare respectively to tell tough stories of modern life. They discuss how they went about it
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