Can Movie Stars Handle Greek Classics? London Is Finding Out.
Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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
will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms ...
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PATRICK MARMION reviews Oedipus at the Old Vic Theatre: King Malek upstaged by Greek chorus of dancers
What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening now at London’s Old Vic. The ancient King of Thebes, famed for ...
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Rami Malek and Indira Varma Headline OEDIPUS
Imagine stepping into the theatre and being instantly enveloped by a pulsing, musical heartbeat—an unmistakable sign that you ...
Rami Malek is weirdly indifferent to the freakish turns of this slack, disjointed staging of Oedipus
Sudden blackouts blind the audience, but set design is the most interesting thing about this unbalanced production of the ...
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Oedipus at the Old Vic review – Rami Malek and Indira Varma start strong, finish stifled
Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of ...
Oedipus, Old Vic, review: Rami Malek presumably has his fans – but have they actually seen him act?
The question of whether Rami Malek can actually act has always hung over this most idiosyncratic of performers, whose Oscar ...