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

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 highly stylized production of Sophocles' masterpiece now playing ... paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms, you've first ...

His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who wrote The Trojan Trilogy, of which only The Trojan Women survives ...

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The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about ... were multiple versions of “Oedipus Rex,” as the show is traditionally ...

drawing on the classical tragedies of Sophocles to argue that “Oedipus Rex” (a play in part about the troubles of tyranny) was a near-perfect embodiment of the tragedy. In Shakespeare’s ...