Ivo van Hove on Antigone: 'it's about helpless humans, lost in the cosmos'
Antigone opens at the Edinburgh festival this month with Juliette Binoche in the lead role. Dark, modern and mythical, the tragedy considers the survival not just of an individual but also of a whole societyAntigone by Sophokles tells the ancient story of one of Oidipous's daughters, who refuses to follow the orders of her uncle Kreon, the new head of state.Kreon has ordained that Antigone's brother Polyneikes, who, …