Blues, Jews and Ukrainian ballet: the best theatre, dance and comedy of autumn 2022
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough, 2 September-1 October. At the National Theatre in 2019, Inua Ellams adapted Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, transposing its drama to the Biafran war with virtuosity. Now he turns to Sophoclean tragedy with this play in the Theban cycle about rebel children, tyrant kings and divine interventions.