Antigone (2015)

A moral fable about the struggle between individual conscience and the laws made by an all-powerful state. For this version, the translator Jane Montgomery Griffiths gives us a brutal modern dictatorship where the ruler, played by Jane herself, is a well-groomed and ruthless woman. The story line is the same, except that the updated script bristles with phrases from the Australian political lexicon, including 'off-shore detention centre'. The production is bleak, dangerous and brutal, and ends with the tortured, dead Antigone suspended from a hook.

"ANTIGONE IS PERHAPS THE GREATEST PLAY EVER WRITTEN ABOU THE TENSION BETWEEN THE DUTIES WE OWE THE STATE AND THOSE WE OWE TO OUR PERSONAL VALUES."

— The Telegraph