The Quad Cities’ Genesius Guild theater opens its 69th season of free theater with the classic Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex” this weekend. Performances are June 7, 8, 14, and 15 at ...

Producer: Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and Patrick Catullo Writer: Robert Icke (after Sophocles) ...

Move beyond Laius. Source: Galit Romanelli Oedipus and Laius We all know the story of Oedipus. But the character I’ve been thinking about lately is Laius, Oedipus’s father. Laius is warned ...

telling the tale of her terrible marriage at 13 to the brutal Laius, of the prophecy that led him to order the death of their baby son, and of the deep, sensual joy she found, after Laius’s ...

Laius. The chorus first enters singing – and dancing – about the disasters the people have been facing and prays for their end. For the rest of the play, from the foot of the palace ...

In Greek mythology, Oedipus was a famous tragic hero. He was born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Before his birth, a prophecy was made that he would kill his father. Wishing to thwart ...

Pärast linastust saalis kõlanud pikk aplaus oli sügavalt liigutav. Oleks tahtnud, et Leida Laius oleks saanud seda kogeda. See on väga eriline tunne ja teadmine, et Leida Laiuse filmid ei ole ainult ...

After some years of happy marriage and four children, Jocasta discovers that Oedipus is, in fact, her son, and the murderer of her first husband (his father) Laius. Jocasta only has a few lines in ...

Two adrenaline-filled new theatrical productions have opened in London that will get audience’s pulses racing–the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Kyoto at Soho Place, and Ella Hickson’s ...

He is rattled by the prophecy that says King Laius’s murderer must be found to end the drought in Thebes, immediately abandoning thoughts of fleeing his city and listening to the tape recorder ...

King Oedipus, played by the movie star Rami Malek — best known for his Oscar-winning performance in “Bohemian Rhapsody” — wants to figure out who killed his predecessor, Laius, in hopes ...

The rains will come and the people will be healed.’ It’s a cold case but, according to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished then all will be well. The people ...