The opening scene of the Old Vic’s Oedipus is dominated by a giant backdrop of a skull-like face, eyes shut and rock-like. It ...

Jocasta has been questioned by Oedipus for details on the death of King Laius. When she asks what burden Oedipus is carrying and to share his information, this is his reply. A curse has taken a ...

Shocked, the Sphinx hurls herself off the pass to her death on the rocks below. When Oedipus gets to Thebes the citizens are so grateful that they make him king. Coincidentally (or perhaps not ...

His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus ... two years after Pericles' death. He specialized in what we would call political satire, and ...