Antigone review game

There is no dialogue for the first few moments, until a pop song flips on and Antigone and her sister Ismene rise up from the earth, as if from the dead. Those bars and brothers are never glimpsed. What is captured so singularly and exquisitely is the intimate relationship between sisters who are teetering on the brink of womanhood. Even though they talk of men and sex, their ardour for each other seems like the central love affair, and their garrulous sex-talk is a childish performance for the amusement of the other.

Micari Antigone. Micari as Antigone. Yoneji Ouchi as Haemon, and company. Like this: Like Loading Author: New York Theater Jonathan Mandell is a 3rd generation NYC journalist, who sees shows, reads plays, writes reviews and sometimes talks with people. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Luke Norris is all unflinching truculence as the soldier who reports Polyneices' burial, Jamie Ballard as the prophetic Teiresias has the testy impatience of the truth-teller, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith delivers news of the climactic tragedy with appalled disbelief.

But what this production, aided by Soutra Gilmour's set and Dan Jones's sound design, does superbly is usher us into a world of self-regarding power that falls apart through its neglect of instinctive human feeling. Antigone — review. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian. Topics Theatre Sophocles Polly Findlay reviews. Oh tell it! Tell everyone! Think how they'll hate you when it all comes out If they learn that you knew about it all along!

When the sentry notifies Creon that someone has buried Polyneices, what does Creon threaten him with? I have heard them Muttering and whispering in the dark about this girl They say no woman has ever, so unreasonably, Died so shameful a death for a generous act.