The action unfurls not in ancient Thebes, said Sarah Hemming in the Financial Times, but in a modern-day suburban home, where ...

Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking the land with his daughter, Antigone. He is searching ... But Creon wants Oedipus to return to Thebes. All of Oedipus' children are thrust ...

In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices ...