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 ...

What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening now at London’s Old Vic. The ancient King of Thebes, famed for ...

The setting is a drought-stricken Thebes and the play is a reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy, “Oedipus Rex,” first performed around 429 B.C. and relevant as ever in our era of vainglorious ...

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 ...

You can perform impossible feats, be a wise and respected leader, even solve the riddle of the Sphinx – but if you end up ...

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 ...

Readers who do not know her name are likely to be familiar with the crisp, moody covers she has designed for scores of books including Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour" and Michelle Zauner’s ...

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 ...