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

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 ...

Robert Icke's contemporary adaptation of "Oedipus" dominated the U.K. Critics' Circle theater awards 2025, taking home three ...

DARKNESS AND DAY (298 pp.) — /. Compton-Burnett—Knopf ($3.50). When the original Oedipus found that he was married to his own mother, he put out his eyes and wandered blindly to his death.

Because this is the fact: Donald Trump’s lawlessness is a far greater threat to the peace and security of these United States ...

Other concepts that are popularly associated with Freud today include that of revealing "Freudian slips” in speech and Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex, in which a child harbors an ...

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 ...

Rose Byrne, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, Kelli O'Hara and Patrick Page are among the stars. “This season is a testament to transformation—on our stages, in our spaces, and in the stories we ...

After opening at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre, Oedipus became an instant phenomenon and became the highest-grossing limited-run production in Wyndham’s history. “Electric” (Observer ...

Jocasta has been questioned by Oedipus for details on the death of King Laius. When she asks what burden Oedipus is carrying and to share his information, this is his reply. A curse has taken a ...