Director Ivo van Hove’s production has a sombre aesthetic beauty while Binoche avoids the easy path of pathosTeam Juliette Binoche with Ivo van Hove, director of A View from the Bridge, in Greek tragedy and the result is bound to be a prestige show: one that will tour Europe, including the Edinburgh Festival, and the United States. But the result, in Anne Carson’s fine new translation, is much more than a snob hit: it’s a production that combines a sombre aesthetic beauty with a sense of the ambivalence at the heart of Sophocles’s play. Related: From Naked to Antigone: Juliette Binoche on stage – in pictures Related: Death becomes her: how Juliette Binoche and Ivo van Hove remade Antigone Continue reading...
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