When the horrifying truth is finally revealed, Oedipus does not flee from it. He accepts full responsibility, gouging out the ...

The daily and nightly reflections on South Sudan situation provoke philosophical questions deserving quick saving ...

Two concurrent London productions of Oedipus might seem like overkill, but they actually worked to demonstrate the ...

She projects the dignity of the queen of Thebes, and at the same time retains ... is as different from Oedipus Rex as any play can be, but--partly perhaps because it is so dissimilar--it makes ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex explores the tragic clash between fate ... Oedipus' attempts to avert his destiny — bringing plague and misfortune upon Thebes — paradoxically lead him to fulfil ...

In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character ofOedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of humanreversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the Oedipus ...

A child accused. Everyone left to answer.

Weirdly, this one and Icke’s even open in the same way: Oedipus has just become leader of Thebes; cheering, adulation. And then, well, to say the two productions diverge is an understatement.

When the horrifying truth is finally revealed, Oedipus does not flee from it. He accepts full responsibility, gouging out the ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...