Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...
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 ...
Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...
Read our review of *Oedipus*, starring Indira Varma and Rami Malek, now in performances at the Old Vic Theatre through 29 ...
The West is on a war footing. The German government is working on an app that helps people locate their nearest bunker. A ...
exacerbating a crisis with actions intended to prevent it — just as Oedipus ended up killing Laius, his father, only because Laius took harsh measures aimed at thwarting the Delphic prophecy that he ...
The star also recalled growing up in the U.S. and said his father partially ... King Oedipus who is tasked by his subjects to avenge the murder of the old King Laius in hopes that it will fulfill ...
The Academy Award winner also said that while growing up in the US, he noticed that his father ... Laius is found and punished then all will be well. The people turn to their new King, Oedipus ...
Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of ...
But when the oracle declares the rain will come only when the murderer of King Laius is exposed, Oedipus seizes on the chance to become the saviour of the people by solving the 20-year-old mystery ...