The protagonist - played by Luca Lazzareschi - is also Tiresias, also Laius's Servant ... where his distorted images appear.

Oedipus first premiered in Amsterdam in 2018, performed in Dutch, then played Edinburgh International Festival a year later. This belated West End visit retains the original’s stark European ...

Oedipus the King This version of Sophocles' play deals fairly superficially with the bare bones of the tragic story of the king, ... as Tiresias, the blind prophet of doom. ...

Oedipus Rex review “Clever, ... Emyr Wyn Jones (Messenger), Callum Thorpe (the seer Tiresias) and Seumas Begg (Shepherd) all discharge their key revelatory roles with clarity.

Jocasta constantly goads Oedipus, making a joke of Tiresias’s seemingly impossible prophecy that he’ll sleep with his mother – making the eventual revelation still more jarring and painful.