Mark Strong and Lesley Manville give immaculate performances as Oedipus and Jocasta, bolstered by David Icke's monumental ...

Those who witnessed the 1881 production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex can now see what eventually happened to the King in the play's sequel, Oedipus Coloneus, the last of the dramatist's seven extant ...

One of the most basic questions in the world is “Who are you?” It's at the heart of the ancient tragedy of Oedipus, and it ...

The highly stylized production of Sophocles' masterpiece now playing ... paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms, you've first ...

Where can you read/rent/buy this book? Project Gutenberg. 9. “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles (430 and 426 B.C.) Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has all the makings of a pulsating thriller—drama ...

His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who wrote The Trojan Trilogy, of which only The Trojan Women survives ...

Rob Icke’s reimagining of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old tragedy boasts a starry cast, but does it have the critics tearing their ...

Lesley Manville and Mark Strong are spellbinding in Robert Icke ’s wrenchingly tense reworking of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy.

Especially in a time of war, we should be bad readers: not because we must abjure curiosity or knowledge but because we in ...

"I was fortunate enough to go into a coma." Giorgio Montanini gets straight to the point, without beating around the bush, ...

Euripides’ genius is shown by the manner in which he shows the horrors and pain of a war. But it is not done through ...

"I was fortunate to fall into a coma." Giorgio Montanini gets straight to the point, without beating around the bush, when ...