“Oedipus Rex” is about as far from a new work as possible, having first been performed around 1,600 years ago. While stories of this caliber and place in the literary canon can often feel ...

Bullish (Video) Oedipus Rex: Man and God (1959) Posted: March 9, 2025 | Last updated: March 9, 2025 The film explores the themes of fate, prophecy, and the struggle between human intelligence and ...

Though mythical in origin, “Oedipus Rex” continues to resonate because of how Sophocles handles its theme — with restraint, clarity and a mature sense of resolution. When the horrifying truth is ...

Written in the 5th century BCE by one of the greatest ancient Greek playwrights, Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is a masterpiece of theatrical construction, fraught with horrific, methodically realized ...

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Oedipus Rex is a perfect mystery-box play, balancing horror and humour, with each scene bringing new revelations, ratcheting up tensions around who Oedipus actually is. Tension builds about who he ...

The Company Theatre continues its 2023-24 season with the Sophocles' classic OEDIPUS REX, running February 15-25 at the historic Temple Building Theater, 50 Liberty Pole Way, in Rochester. “The ...

And this tangibility of the ancient gives a perfect backdrop for one of the oldest stories of all time: the Oedipus Myth (pictured above, Roland Wood as Creon and Kutty Whately as Jocasta). A quick ...

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 ...