That’s the Antigone that’s currently taking place in an 18,000-gallon pool of water at the Park Avenue Armory.
Miyagi’s Antigone is not a story about the living; it’s a rite for the dead and an acknowledgement of the thinness of the veil that separates the two.
In a bouncy, near-cartoonish vein, she and her fellow actors play out an abbreviated summary of Antigone for us — “In case you’ve forgotten the story!” she beams.
The beauty of Miyagi’s Antigone is that it seeks an image vocabulary for death that allows for dispassionate but not unkind reflection upon the living.
Antigone is at the Park Avenue Armory through October 6.