Eye On the Arts

                            Mica as Antigone. Photo (c) Stephanie Berger REVIEW: ANTIGONE Little is known about the actual specifics of how Ancient Greek dramas unfolded on the amphitheaters of Ancient Greece. But the recent production of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center’s  Antigone  at the Park Avenue Armory is exhilarating due to its lucidity and quiet authority. From the river of water flooding the stage, rock formations emerge reminiscent of Stonehenge or Isamu Noguchi’s set designs for Martha Graham’s Greek myth based works. As the audience settles down in bleachers facing the long strip of stage, a ceremonial procession of performers in white robes and pants enter rubbing glass votives producing high-pitched thin rings. Positioned at the lip of the stage in the middle of lie of actors, Maki Honda welcomes the audience and offers to brush up the audience’s memories of Sophocles’ famous tragedy  Antigone . In a comedic riff, they provide a thumbnail overview of Antigon