Last Friday night Stuart and I went to see Alexander Zeldin’s new play The Other Place at the Lyttelton Theatre on London's glitzy South Bank.
It was fab.
Based on the Greek tragedy Antigone, what starts as a respectful family gathering to scatter the ashes of a deceased relative soon descends from a light amusing comedy of manners to a night of raw grief, greed, insanity, incest, fratricide, suicide, and good old general homicide.
Tobias Menzies (him off of The Crown) and Nina Sosanya (her off of everything) are excellent as the grown-ups in the room.
Emma D’Arcy (them off so House of the Dragon) and Lee Braithwaite (them off of Cowbois) are fantastic as the grieving sisters.
If you like you entertainment dramatic fierce whilst not being too melodramatic - this is the play for you. In truth, it's quite funny too.
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