But it is Antigone, played by Ameila Forder, who is the engine and magnet of this show. Every time I was about to shake my head at a somewhat too cute production element, Forder would have a scene ...

“Ashes fall in August / In October, the blood shines,” Eiko Ishibashi sings in Japanese near the end of “October,” the opening track from Antigone. “Covered with ashes, long winter ...