By Chloe D’Arcy Sophocles’ Antigone is one of the most well-known Greek tragedies. The play features the aftermath of the incestuous union of Oedipus with his own mother, Jocasta: in Antigone, Creon (Jocasta’s brother) takes over as King of Thebes after Antigone’s brothers Eteocles and Polyneices both die fighting each other for the throne. Creon decides to properly honour Eteocles with burial rites, but leave Polyneices out “for the dogs” in an act of public humiliation. Thi

By Malin Nilssen Hekabe is Anne Carson’s translation of Euripides’ tragedy Hecuba, a story that takes place just after the Trojan War as the Greeks head home. It depicts Hekabe, queen of the fallen city of Troy, grieving for the many losses she suffered in and after the war, with the last loss of her son Polydorus setting her up for revenge. Carson’s translation gives women as a group and their choices the stage. TFTV’s production focuses on the suffering of the play’s women

By Lucia Rimini ‘Imagine rolling the dice 6,000 times’. This line, delivered by Marianne, one of the two central characters in Nick Payne’s Constellations, perhaps best encapsulates the central idea of this play, in which the two characters live out multiple possible versions of various instances in their lives, each prompting the audience to consider the infinite possibilities of each scenario. Directed by Thomas Leadbeater and Amy Noriko Ward for the Squabbling House Theatr

By Ellie Ward As I settled into my seat in TFTV’S black box theatre yesterday evening, I had a flick through the programme that had been carefully placed on my seat. Apparently, David Barnett has a confession to make. He is not a great fan of “The Crucible”, Arthur Miller’s 1953 play. Despite this, or rather, because of this, “The Crucible” is the very piece of theatre that Barnett has chosen to direct as part of his ongoing Brecht in Practise project, supported by actors and