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

As in Shakespeare’s similarly archetypal play Hamlet, Oedipus is very much like a detective ... all-seeing (but blind) seer Tiresias for answers. Reluctantly, and under physical threat ...

A child accused. Everyone left to answer.

Oedipus is surprised by soothsayer Tiresias, here imagined as a blind, homeless savant ... As in his previous free adaptations of plays by the Greeks and Chekhov, Icke invokes a sense of the ...