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By Steve Dinneen Greek tragedies revel in stories of rape and incest and trauma and abuse but we’re at least partly shielded from these horrors by 2000 years of distance and the prism of epic heroes and demigods. Transplant those same themes into a modern family home and, well, it hits different. The Other Place is playwright Alexander Zeldin’s reimagining of Antigone, turning the fable about power struggles between kings and princesses into a harrowing kitchen sink drama that delivers its terrible message with such precision it elicited shocked gasps from the National Theatre audience. The pl…

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