The action unfurls not in ancient Thebes, said Sarah Hemming in the Financial Times, but in a modern-day suburban home, where King Creon is Chris, his niece Antigone is Annie, and her sister ...

Just as the Greek Antigone’s unjust demise destroys its perpetrator’s life — King Creon’s son and wife commit suicide in short succession after Antigone’s death — perversions of the ...