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September 27, 2015

A merciless sun blazes over Thebes in Ivo van Hove’s doom-steeped production of Sophocles’ “Antigone,” which opened on Sunday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a highly distraught Juliette Binoche in the title role. As conceived by the set and lighting designer Jan Versweyveld, this ferocious orb dominates the back wall of the stage at the Harvey Theater like an all-seeing eye of fire, one that judges and withers everything it surveys. You get the feeling that it’s not just the ill-fated souls of ancient Greece that this sun looks upon. It’s staring straight into the audience as well. That stately drumbeat that we hear every so often is marking the pace of everybody’s death march. Well, you didn’t exactly expect an evening of feel-good forgiveness, did you? Greek tragedy — which is much in vogue these days on both sides of the Atlantic — has always been take-no-prisoners theater.

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