"We've seen Robert Icke's Oedipus as a political thriller on Broadway last fall, Shayok Misha Chowdhury's revival of the choral Gospel at Colonus at Little Island in the summer (if you missed that, I recommend a tape of the 1985 production on YouTube), and now, Alexander Zeldin's The Other Place at the Shed, a version of Antigone turned into a bourgeois family drama."
"At 80 minutes, it presents a slim, incompletely cutting family reckoning, one that spills a little blood but doesn't sever any arteries. Emma D'Arcy (most familiar to us Americans as a queen on House of the Dragon or for their taste in negronis) is Annie, a wayward niece who suddenly returns to her family's estate after her uptight uncle, Chris (Tobias Menzies, the knifelike lines in his jaw well utilized here),"
Contemporary stagings have transformed Sophocles' Theban plays into varied genres, including a Broadway political thriller, a choral Gospel Colonus revival, and a bourgeois family–drama Antigone. Zeldin's The Other Place relocates Antigone from Thebes to a London-area house under renovation, running eighty minutes and offering a slim, incomplete family reckoning. Emma D'Arcy plays Annie, who returns to oppose her uncle Chris's plan to scatter their father's ashes; Tobias Menzies plays Chris, and Ruby Stokes plays peacemaking sister Issy. The production emphasizes familial resentment and restraint, delivering small ruptures rather than sweeping catharsis.
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