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Went to see an adaptation of Antigone today.

One-word review: YIKES.

Longer review: I…don’t understand the writer’s choices at all. ANY OF THEM.

Unexpected Antigone/Polynices incest! I’m just. Look, buddy, if incest is your thing, maybe consider doing an adaptation of Oedipus/Jocasta’s story. Just saying.
…Honestly I think it was also implying Creon had a thing for Antigone too, but the acting choices in this were so bizarre I am not a hundred percent sure on that. Also weird Antigone/Teiresias subtext??
Haemon and Antigone were engaged, but then ten days before the wedding, Haemon sleeps with Ismene? Also why make Haemon a WASP-y dude bro, rude.
Okay, so Eurydice doesn’t exist in this adaptation. Cool. Cool cool cool.
…Antigone is possibly schizophrenic and definitely hears voices. I…no. Nope.
Who are these two killers who keep showing up and murdering random characters? Like, I am pretty sure not this many people died in Antigone. Did these two weirdos wander off the set of a stage play of The Boondock Saints?
…And then Antigone dies because Creon institutionalizes her and she jumps out of the window of her room. NOPE.

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