In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, ...

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

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

In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, a digital clock ticks down the seconds to zero. It’s a trick Icke ...

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

Most modern people get no further than Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and his Antigone, but it was a much larger collection of literature. Sadly, the great majority of these dramas are lost in the ...

This remarkable exhibition deals with an aspect of Roman culture that is relatively unfamiliar to most people yet – as the proliferation of vast and ambitious stone theatres throughout the empire ...

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

Possibly the only film in cinematic history to open with an inversion of the worst scene in Oedipus Rex, Sarah Friedland’s directorial debut Familiar Touch frankly tackles the consequences of time on ...

(That's because, as I keep telling you, human nature never changes.) His greatest hits, "Oedipus Rex," "Antigone" and "Oedipus at Colonus"--the Theban trilogy of tragedies--are all variations on a ...

Similarly, Sophocles’s Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex features a classic detective-like investigation that has become a foundational archetype in literary and dramatic tradition. The debut novel in ...