Ivo van Hove, Antigone, Juliette Binoche and Samuel Edward-Cook, photocredit Jan Versweyveld
Following on from the success of last year’s production of Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge at the Young Vic — now playing in the West End — innovative Belgian director Ivo van Hove turns his attention to Greek tragedy with a new version of Sophocles’s Antigone, penned by Canadian poet Anne Carson. After premiering in Luxembourg last month, the production has arrived at the Barbican prior to an international tour that takes in the Edinburgh Festival and the United States. And Juliette Binoche as the eponymous heroine is one hot ticket.
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