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In the shadow of Sophocles

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20001106
Author:PATRICK MARMION

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PLAYS that reflect on other, greater works had better watch out that they don't wind up reflecting their own inadequacies. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happens to Rukhsana Ahmad's Bombay drama inspired by Sophocles's Antigone. The story is that of a family dispute over whether to bury or burn the recently deceased mother. In her religiously promiscuous life, she had one child from a Hindu marriage and two more from a Muslim marriage.

But shortly before she died intestate, she returned to India and took up atheism. As a result, the Hindu side ...

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