Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...
Strong contrasts and sudden changes of rhythm are crucial in this production of Oedipus. Hofesh Shechter Company set the ...
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 ...
When Thebes is beset by drought, King Oedipus (Rami Malek) urges his people to move to fertile ground. But the oracle decrees that if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished they will be ...
Read our review of *Oedipus*, starring Indira Varma and Rami Malek, now in performances at the Old Vic Theatre through 29 ...
This version struggles to sustain its dramatic tension, its detached ideas never quite forming a cohesive whole.
Icke presented a very contemporary picture with Oedipus a Western-style politician who is seeking election, surrounded by a ...
Meanwhile, the West is running the risk of falling into the Oedipus trap: exacerbating a crisis with actions intended to prevent it — just as Oedipus ended up killing Laius, his father, only because ...
Readings of 'The Breasts of Tiresias' is set for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 and 29, Mad Horse Theatre plans to present Dark Horse Nights, a series of staged readings that can provide additional insights ...
Joining them in the new adaptation of Sophocles’ classic tragedy by Ella Hickson are Nicholas Khan as Creon, Joseph Mydell as Corinthian, Cecilia Noble as Tiresias, and Nicholas Woodeson as Shepherd.