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 ...

One of the more interesting features of the current meta is that characters of a lesser name are rising to the top of the tree. That said, anybody who has read any appearances by Squirrel Girl in ...

Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter's new production of Sophocles' family tragedy gets off to a "fabulous" start. But while there are "tantalising" flashes of "wonder" along the way, it struggles to ...

Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical 'Oklahoma!' rethink drew acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.

The current wave of visiting Hollywood names seems drawn to unyielding, obstinate characters. One expects a degree of fixity, but for us to feel their predicament there’s got to be room for them ...

This left not enough time to flesh out the characters or to turn the inevitability of the tragedy that is coming Oedipus’s way and its reasons into the usual fascinating conundrum. That said ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of ...

Imagine stepping into the theatre and being instantly enveloped by a pulsing, musical heartbeat—an unmistakable sign that you ...