Sir Tyrone Guthrie – from whom the Chifley government commissioned a report on a National Theatre – did an Australian production in 1970 with Ron Haddrick as Oedipus and Peter Carroll as a very ...

Enraged, Dionysus destroys Pentheus for his impiety. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus, the king of Thebes, calls upon the great prophet to ask him who killed the previous King Laius. At first, ...

In Oedipus, Writer/Director Robert Icke’s highly political reimagining of Sophocles timeless play, Oedipus Rex, we contemplate the circumstances of our own birth, whether our parents welcomed us ...

Both Teiresias and Kreon work to depict Oedipus’ fight against fate, often urging Oedipus to see the truth and, sometimes, even getting physical. Over the course of the continuous hour and 30 minutes ...

The audience needn’t have much complaint about the setting for Scottish Opera’s promenade production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex at the National Museum because they were the setting, between ...

The central characters – Oedipus, his queen (and mother) Jocasta, her brother Creon and the seer Tiresias – stand on pedestals, as if they were statues pinched from Athens in 1801 on the orders of ...

Oedipus Rex review “Clever, powerful and engaging” Reviews Aug 13, 2024 by Thom Dibdin National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh ...

Scottish Opera’s ambitious promenade performance of Oedipus Rex in the grand gallery of the National Museum of Scotland leads our latest batch of EIF reviews. Words by Susan Nickalls, Ken Walton ...