A suicide bomber, text messaging, and a press conference are just a few of the modern-day touches that Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson have inserted into Too Much Memory, the husband-and-wife team's vibrant re-working of Antigone, now at the Fourth Street Theatre under Gibson's direction.

The work owes more to Jean Anouilh's version of the tale than Sophocles' actual Greek tragedy. Indeed, Too Much Memory derives several of its scenes directly from those of the French playwright -- including the one-man chorus (here played by Martin Moran) commenting upon the actors prior to the start of the play; a scene between Antigone (Laura Heisler) and Haemon (Seth Numrich) that fleshes out their relati[...]