Oedipus is a slick 21st-century politician who promises to clean things up: his supporters campaign for honesty and truth with neat Obama-style graphic posters ... something to play with ...

While the tragedy is played out in its entirety and we only get a little bit of Freud, “Oedipus Complex” is most interesting in how it views Freud as a character — he examines the play and ...

So you haven't read Oedipus the King by Sophocles? Well, get your tragedy mask ready as we tell you about this masterpiece that has influenced the structure of western drama for millennia!

For the rest of the play, from the foot of the palace, the chorus observes Oedipus’s investigation, horrific discovery and the piteous aftermath for his family. The treatment of the role of the ...

Beginning at MIT with the first punk rock show in the country, to his career as a DJ and program director at the legendary rock station of Boston, WBCN, Oedipus has been collecting Christmas music for ...

It’s difficult to imagine anyone watching Oedipus without having prior knowledge of the story’s brutal twist - especially the case given that a rival production of the same play has just ...

Surely the most powerful production the UK will see this year, Robert Icke's adaptation of "Oedipus" turns Sophocles' 5th century BC drama into an electrifying "play for today", said Susannah ...

With Edith Hall, Nick Lowe and Fiona Macintosh. Show more Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex begins with a warning: the murderer of the old king of Thebes, Laius, has never been identified or caught ...

By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Created and directed by Robert Icke, Oedipus comes to Broadway after ... in the Wyndham Theatre’s history. The play, which sets Sophocles’ Greek tragedy ...

Oedipus, paragon of problem-solvers, discovers by the end of the play the limits of his own keen intellect. In trying to outrun his fate, he learns that he is part of a design that is larger than ...

A WOMAN has shared the unique name of a child she knows — people joked that their parents willingly gave their son an Oedipus complex. Others cringed at the unfortunate name. A woman shared the ...