When the original Oedipus found that he was married to his own mother, he put out his eyes and wandered blindly to his death. Edmund and Bridget Lovat, the principal characters in Ivy Compton ...

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 ...

The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about a king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, will come to ...

In this play, secrets may fester, but the truth is deadly. Strong said Oedipus’ tragic flaw is what another character calls his “honesty fetish.” “He is obsessed with the truth,” Strong ...

Jocasta enters to end the argument between Oedipus and Creon. When she asks why they were fighiting, Oedipus states they were talking about the prophocies and other items. Jocasta revelas a ...