Antigone Exits

About the show

Antigone’s brother has died in a bloody civil war. The king – her uncle – has forbidden anyone to bury the body. Antigone is going to bury the body anyway.

Twenty-five centuries after Antigone, seven performers gather to re-tell the tale of what is buried and what comes of it. Ancient Greece crashes into the contemporary, as Sophocles' classic tragedy shines a scorching light onto our current world.

Nina Segal’s modern adaptation brings Antigone blazing into the present day. Her previous work includes Cow | Deer (Royal Court), We Are The Lucky Ones (Dutch National Opera) and Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre).

Jeff James directs; his recent directing work includes Shooting Hedda Gabler at the Rose Theatre and his own adaptations of Persuasion at the Manchester Royal Exchange and Winter’s Tale at the Dailes Theatre, Latvia.