“Oedipus Rex” is no small undertaking; it’s a story comprised of dense language, heady themes, and iconic characters. The Company Theatre’s cast is up to the challenge, featuring ...

Oedipus Rex By Backstage Staff | Last Updated: November 04, 2019 The riddle of the Sphinx and the plague of Thebes take on new meaning in this interpretation of Sophocles' multi-millenium-old tale.

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is traditionally interpreted as a play about the gods' relation to human agency. But this understanding of the text is deficient and misses the point. Instead, and as I ...

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex. Updated : ... King Polybus of Corinth, whom Oedipus believes to be his father, has died. However, it is now revealed that Polybus was only the foster-father of Oedipus, ...

Thanks to Sigmund Freud, the Oedipus myth has become the modern model for extreme psychological distress, so I suppose it`s appropriate that a film version of this tale of parricide and mother-son … ...

“Oedipus Rex,” a popular play written by the famous author Sophocles, was produced in Athens, Greece, in 430 BC. The play consists of 4 episodes. Sophocles has adopted Aristotle’s tragedy ...

KARACHI: Let’s give credit to Sigmund Freud for turning the story of Oedipus Rex into a psychological condition. You can disagree with the father of psychoanalysis when he suggests that some of ...

Presented by the National Theater of Greece at City Center Theater, W. 55 St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves., NYC, Oct. 4-8. When the most exciting scene in Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" is the one ...