Another Antigone standing before the tsar is Liudmila ... What’s more, she could even emerge as a charismatic symbol in the fight for freedoms, in the way that Nelson Mandela represented ...

Antigone, the teenage heroine who gives the play her name, is a princess of the ruling house. Her parents are dead, and her two brothers have killed each other in a fight to control the kingdom.

Alexander Raptotasios’ thrilling update of Sophocles’ tragedy draws on the story of Isis bride Shamima Begum to let the ...