Father’s Day has just passed us by. Late being better than never, here is a belated salute to Father’s Day as celebrated by our old buddy Oedipus in Greek mythology land. If you think your family ...

Tony Award winners Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub will star in Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), a reimagining of the ancient play by Sophocles, at the Public Theater in 2026.Tyne ...

In the Icke adaptation, Oedipus is with his family (wife Jocasta, mother Merope, brother-in-law Creon and three adult children Antigone, Polynices and Eteocles) at his campaign headquarters on the ...

Late last year, there was an adaptation of Antigone starring Emma D’Arcy and Tobias Menzies at the National Theatre, then a new version of Oedipus featuring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville in ...

Oedipus (Old Vic Theatre, London) Rating: What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? ... Antigone: ‘Come on, baba, I’ll read you a story’.

In their production of "Antigone: 3021," Centreville High School details the conflict between humanity and tyranny as this dystopian society begins to seem not too dissimilar from that of reality.

Both come in the wake of Alexander Zeldin’s modern re-spin of the tale of Oedipus’s daughter Antigone, The Other Place, which opened at the National Theatre last week. First, Oedipus.

Oedipus’s wife, feisty daughter Antigone (Phia Saban) and two sons are cut from the same cloth, alternately narcissistic, bitchy and kind. Their family dynamic is engagingly evoked, the switches from ...

There is admiration, too, for June Watson as Oedipus’ adoptive mother Merope, for Michael Gould as his political advisor Creon, and for Phia Saban as his daughter Antigone. It is Lesley Manville ...

Robert Icke's new version of "Oedipus", starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, is about to open, ... a "very loose" retelling of "Antigone" that manages to be naturalistic yet also uncanny.

There’s lots of cleverness here: it’s Creon, for example, (an urbane and slightly sinister Michael Gould) who solves the riddle of the Sphinx in a conversation with the already challenging Antigone ...

Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: ... It’s amazing to see it in London now, not least because Alexander Zeldin’s updating of Sophocles’ Antigone, about Oedipus’s offspring, ...