Antigone in Analysis

New York, NY – OBIE and NYIT Award-winning Peculiar Works Project returns to La MaMa ETC’s Downstairs Theatre for the world premiere of Antigone in Analysis, written by Barbara Barclay and directed by Ralph Lewis, running March 20 – April 5, 2026. Opening night is March 23. The legendary theater presenter commemorates this spring’s Women’s History Month with Sophocles’ classic… reimagined as a feminist fever dream of Greek storytelling trapped in a philosophical nightmare!

Leading the cast as Jocasta is Bianca Leigh, just off her originating role in Broadway’s Oh, Mary! and newcomer Alessandra Lopez as Antigone. The Chorus of antagonistic philosophers features Mick Hilgers (Hegel/Sentry), Nomi Tichman (Irigaray/Tiresias), Simon Henriques (Kierkegaard/Ismene), Sammy Rivas (Lacan/Haemon), and Linnea Scott (Butler/Artemis). Live music by Samantha Kochis (Flute) and Freja Højland Høj (Vocalist).

This contemporary makeover of Antigone reimagines the classical Greek myth with a metaphysical twist: a salon of great thinkers from across time conjures Sophocles’ play, putting Jocasta on the throne to square off with Antigone. Their meddling erupts in a mother-daughter throwdown that interrogates patriarchal storytelling through a feminist lens. And there is no battle more fiercely fought than that between a daughter and her mother.