KING Creon becomes gangland boss Creo and Antigone turns into Tig in London playwright Roy Williams's contemporary version of Antigone, inspired by Sophocles.

Greek tragedy makes way for chic tragedy in York company Pilot Theatre's co-production with Derby Theatre and the Theatre Royal Stratford East, where the tour will conclude with a five-week run.

For all the association with Derby and Stratford East, Antigone is every inch a Pilot and Williams show in their third collaborative project. He evokes the gangland culture with London 21st century patois; Pilot artistic director Marcus Romer and designer Joanna Scotcher favour the familiar Pilot tropes of multi-media imagery, rapid scenes and abrasive music for the teenage target audience.

Sophocles's story of loyalty and truth, human nature and wilful behaviour remains a brutal drama built around one woman's audacious stand against the rules, as Savannah Gordon-Liburd's Tig defies Mark Monero's Creo by placing a coat on the body of her unruly late brother. Creo in turn reacts to her defiance by condemning her to be buried alive, by which time she is in cahoots with Creo's son Eamon (Gamba Cole).

With its street language and West Side Story-style urban setting, Antigone plays out as a cross between EastEnders soap and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels gangster cool, especially when blind prophet Tyrese (Oliver Wilson) turns up. Gordon-Liburd's Tig does not grab your heart and though Cole and Monero fare better, Antigone is more style than content, all flashy noise and unconvincing fury.

Antigone, Pilot Theatre, York Theatre Royal, 7.30pm tonight and tomorrow; 2.30pm, 7.30pm,Saturday, and on tour. Box office: 01904 623568 or yorktheatreroyal.co.uk