Antigone

BBC Four cameras will exclusively capture the Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Chocolat) playing the title role in Sophokles’s tale of family loyalty, courage and tragedy. The Barbican’s visionary new English language translation by TS Eliot prize-winning poet and classicist Anne Carson, is directed by renowned Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove (A View From The Bridge, 2013, Roman Tragedies, 2009).