This modern family psychodrama bills itself “after Antigone”, and seems at first like a bare-boned distillation of the Sophoclean tragedy. Alexander Zeldin’s sleek reworking, performed without an interval, certainly cuts to the chase.
We meet a modern blended family and the estranged Annie (Emma D’Arcy), who has a history of poor mental health. She, along with her meeker sister Issy (Alison Oliver), is in a prolonged state of mourning over an unstable father who killed himself years before, but whose ashes still lie in the house that his brother, Chris (Tobias Menzies), has taken over. It is these ashes that become the main point of contention.
