The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of light, unable to escape his destiny. A blackout and dancers emerging from the gloom, pulsing and writhing to the pounding ...

This delirious reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus, king of Thebes, is a freaky fever dream, told here from the point of view of the masses slowly dying of dehydration. It plays out ...

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

Either way, here we are with the second major London production of Sophocles’ Oedipus within months — this time it’s Rami Malek and Indira Varma spiralling into the vortex. Again it’s a ...

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 ...

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 should have ...

For long stretches the set is in half-darkness, Oedipus's face only fitfully prominent. Even when he stands at the front of the stage in a modern double-breasted suit, addressing his citizens via the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...