When Thebes is beset by drought, King Oedipus (Rami Malek) urges his people to move to fertile ground. But the oracle decrees that if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished they will be ...

Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...

This version struggles to sustain its dramatic tension, its detached ideas never quite forming a cohesive whole.

The Oscar-winning star is the uncanny centre of this season’s second take on the tragedy Oedipus, following Robert Icke’s brilliantly imagined modern-day political retelling last year.

even solve the riddle of the Sphinx – but if you end up shagging your mum, that’s the only thing people will remember. This delirious reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus, king of Thebes, is a ...

After all, he saved them before by solving the riddle of Sphinx. He is convinced ... lies in finding the murderer of Laius, Oedipus’s predecessor as King and his wife’s first husband.

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 ...

they needed to bring to justice the murderers of King Laius, the first husband of Jocasta (Indira Varma) who remarried Oedipus 20 years ago when he got Thebes, resolved the Sphinx riddle and freed ...

Fate is a funny thing. Just as it’s hardly Oedipus’s fault that he kills his dad and sleeps with his mum - sorry if you didn’t know that, but 2,500 years and your own Freudian subconscious ...

Malek’s King Oedipus, a slight, awkward figure suddenly feeling his outsider status, offers to consult the oracle to quell disorder. He’s delighted when it comes up with a solution — find ...