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You can perform impossible feats, be a wise and respected leader, even solve the riddle of the Sphinx – but if you end up ...

So you haven't read Oedipus the King by Sophocles? Well, get your tragedy mask ready as we tell you about this masterpiece that has influenced the structure of western drama for millennia!

DARKNESS AND DAY (298 pp.) — /. Compton-Burnett—Knopf ($3.50). When the original Oedipus found that he was married to his own mother, he put out his eyes and wandered blindly to his death.

By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Created and directed by Robert Icke, Oedipus comes to Broadway after a West End run, also starring Strong and Manville, which has been nominated for four Olivier ...

Oedipus, Robert Icke‘s West End hit reimagining of the Sophocles tragedy starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, will transfer to Broadway this fall for a 14-week engagement as part of the ...

Nor is the translation sonorously heavy but retains a dignified poetry. Christopher Plummer as Oedipus gives a sterling performance. His early clashes with his brother-in-law (Richard Johnson ...

Surely the most powerful production the UK will see this year, Robert Icke's adaptation of "Oedipus" turns Sophocles' 5th century BC drama into an electrifying "play for today", said Susannah ...

Watch “Music” closely—and there’s truly no point in watching it any other way—and you will discover the sturdy bones of the tragedy of Oedipus, bent and twisted, almost beyond ...