The celebrated ode in praise of Colonus comes off especially well. Director Brooks is also obviously an actor of considerable experience. He gives a virtuosic performance as Oedipus, who dominates ...

His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who wrote The Trojan Trilogy, of which only The Trojan Women survives ...

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are spellbinding in this wrenchingly tense Greek tragedy - 4/5 Strong is superb and surely ...

His greatest hits, "Oedipus Rex," "Antigone" and "Oedipus at Colonus"--the Theban trilogy of tragedies--are all variations on a theme so heavy and dark, you might wonder how any Greek producer had ...

The Housemartins and Beautiful South singer on his happiest hours by the stereo: “It still sounds exciting now” ...

One of the most basic questions in the world is “Who are you?” It's at the heart of the ancient tragedy of Oedipus, and it ...

This eternal dilemma hums and throbs relentlessly from the start of these hurtling two interval-free hours, as political ...

But he makes incisive alterations to the text, enriching the network of family bonds around Oedipus and fleshing out Jocasta’s backstory in fascinating detail. The piece has a cumulative power ...

As he is near Athens, he seeks out Theseus, King of Athens, and asks him if he may be allowed to stay, die and be buried at Colonus. But Creon wants Oedipus to return to Thebes. All of Oedipus ...