The opening scene of the Old Vic’s Oedipus is dominated by a giant backdrop of a skull-like face, eyes shut and rock-like. It ...

Jocasta has been questioned by Oedipus for details on the death of King Laius. When she asks what burden Oedipus is carrying and to share his information, this is his reply. A curse has taken a ...

Oedipus is found by shepherds and raised by foster-parents, the King and Queen of Corinth. The Oracle at Delphi prophesies that Oedipus will end up killing his father and marrying his mother.

The Infant Oedipus Revived by the Shepherd Phorbas , by Antoine Denis Chaudet, 1810-1818, The Louvre Oedipus before the Sphinx, ceramic circa 470 B.C.E. Source: The Vatican Museums Oedipus and the ...

Icke presented a very contemporary picture with Oedipus a Western-style politician who is seeking election, surrounded by a ...

This version struggles to sustain its dramatic tension, its detached ideas never quite forming a cohesive whole.

The Old Vic welcomes Oedipus this evening! Rami Malek takes on the title role ... Cecilia Noble as Tiresias, and Nicholas Woodeson as Shepherd. Co-directed by Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter, the ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...