It’s quite a risk, then, to cast him in Oedipus, even in light of the apparent bunfight among theatre producers to outdo each other when it comes to star casting in Sophocles: Mark Strong and ...

Fate is a funny thing. Just as it’s hardly Oedipus’s fault that he kills his dad and sleeps with his mum - sorry if you didn’t know that, but 2,500 years and your own Freudian subconscious ...

As with Robert Icke’s shattering adaptation – which had its West End premiere last year – Ella Hickson’s contemporary-language adaptation reimagines Oedipus as a slick politician.

The Old Vic welcomes Oedipus this evening! Rami Malek takes on the title role in the new production, alongside Indira Varma as Jocasta. Joining them in the new adaptation of Sophocles’ classic tragedy ...

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Consider the family of Oedipus, the tragic figure Rami Malek will soon embody at London’s Old Vic. In Sophocles’s Antigone, the daughters of Oedipus struggle over the morality of obeying the ...

I don't want to be like, oh, it's an Oedipus thing or whatever, but it kind of feels like she's reparenting him in a way." The article also stated that Harry actually has very little interaction ...

It was claimed that he used to be more keen and would look to engage with the media, with the insider adding: “I don’t want to be like, oh, it’s an Oedipus thing or whatever, but it kind of ...

Asa Butterfield is a riveting storyteller in his stage debut, playing a fictional runner-up to Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe Martin is played by Asa Butterfield, whose own sliding-doors moment ...

Professionally, Malek is preparing to star in a London production of Oedipus, which will run from January 21 through March 29. The actor’s career continues to flourish as he takes on new roles ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...