Common themes in today’s literature and theatre, such as courage, determination, jealousy, love and faithfulness, existed ...

Oedipus starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma has finally arrived at the Old Vic and the tension was palpable from start to finish.

In fairness, as an analysis of fate, fear, and fanaticism, the Old Vic’s Oedipus works well. Rami Malek, the titular king of Thebes, is characteristically unnerved as he wrestles with whom to turn to ...

Fate is a funny thing. Just as it’s hardly Oedipus’s fault that he kills his dad and sleeps with his mum - sorry if you didn’t know that, but 2,500 years and your own Freudian subconscious ...

Where Icke’s was all sleekness and surgical precision, this one, co-directed by Matthew Warchus and choreographer Hofesh Schechter, takes Aristotle’s unities and rubs them in the old philosopher’s ...

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

Strong contrasts and sudden changes of rhythm are crucial in this production of Oedipus. Hofesh Shechter Company set the ...

But Oedipus is no muscular warrior. Rami Malek’s beguiling casting shades him as an awkward technocrat shrunk by a baggy grey suit, his skeletal frame barely strong enough to hold it up ...

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