Can Movie Stars Handle Greek Classics? London Is Finding Out.
Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...
PATRICK MARMION reviews Oedipus at the Old Vic Theatre: King Malek upstaged by Greek chorus of dancers
What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening ...
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Festen at the Royal Opera House
Happy Families… A new opera by English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is always a cause for excitement amongst the critical ...
Theater That Packs A Punch: Exhilarating Productions Of ‘Kyoto’ And ‘Oedipus’ Open In London
Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...
Rami Malek is weirdly indifferent to the freakish turns of this slack, disjointed staging of Oedipus
Sudden blackouts blind the audience, but set design is the most interesting thing about this unbalanced production of the ...
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Oedipus at the Old Vic review – Rami Malek and Indira Varma start strong, finish stifled
Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of ...
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Oedipus: Rami Malek presumably has his fans – but have they actually seen him act?
Icke turned his Oedipus into a moving political thriller; Ella Hickson’s new adaptation, set in a future drought-afflicted Thebes, reimagines it as a parable of religious delusion. The people ...
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Oedipus at the Old Vic review: Bewildering chaos with Rami Malek strangely mannered
Just as it’s hardly Oedipus’s fault that he kills his dad ... Rae Smith’s spare set, just recessing proscenium arches, beautifully suggests desolation, and mostly yields to Tom Visser ...
Oedipus: Rami Malek is oddly 'stilted' in 'tantalising' production
Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter's new production of Sophocles' family tragedy gets off to a "fabulous" start. But while ...