When her dead brother is decreed a traitor his body left unburied beyond the city walls Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments Defying her uncle who governs she dares to say & No& Forging ahead with a funeral alone she places personal allegiance before politics a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work Ivo van Hove first enthralled London audiences with his ground-breaking Roman Tragediesseen at the Barbican in 2009 Drawing on his &ability to break open texts calcified by tradition& (Guardian) the director now turns to a classic Greek masterpiece