Lastly, the desire for the scapegoat accelerates in times of plague. In Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus (c.429 BCE), Thebes is beset by plague, and the hunt is on for the social transgression that is ...

IT’S an inspired choice to use the Hofesh Shechter Dance company as a Greek chorus in the latest London production of Oedipus. Their writhing, frenetic movement, set to choreographer Shechter’s ...