Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus (or Oedipus Rex) has exerted more influence than any other drama, ancient or modern, on the history of theatre, and this influence has extended far beyond the boundaries of ...

Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is a masterpiece of theatrical construction, fraught with horrific, methodically realized dramatic irony. In the modern era, the play also gave its name to pioneering psy ...

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 ...