Review: ANTIGONE, Tron Theatre
The battle has been won; the soldiers have returned victorious and the dead have been buried. But not all of them. Antigone’s brother has been deemed a traitor and must be punished, even in death.…
George Square, EH8 9LH
Edinburgh
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The battle has been won; the soldiers have returned victorious and the dead have been buried. But not all of them. Antigone’s brother has been deemed a traitor and must be punished, even in death.…
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Enter a mesmerising underworld where human-kind dissolves into something altogether more elemental.…
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