London High School’s drama department is tackling serious themes with its upcoming production of “Antigone,” a Greek tragedy ...

Based on the Sophocles play of the same name, Antigone follows the titular protagonist ... much to the dismay of her father ...

Icke is so attuned to politics that even one jarring detail – no campaign anywhere would risk drinking champagne before the ...

A HARROWING Greek tale is given a modern take in the spiritual space of Holy Trinity at the weekend. Jean Anouilh’s version ...

Oedipus, for instance, suspected that Creon and the prophet Tiresias were conspiring to dethrone him. Though the fear proved baseless in that play, it was a reasonable assumption to make. In two ...

Writer-director Alexander Zeldin strips away the complexities of Sophocles's plot to illuminate brilliantly why a 2,500-year-old play – about ... where King Creon is Chris, his niece Antigone ...

The play also succeeds brilliantly as a mystery thriller, as Oedipus’s investigation into the death, many years before, of former ruler and Jocasta’s first husband, Laius, dovetails with the ...

Yet Oedipus the play ought to grip with sickening implacability from the moment Oedipus the man becomes determined to uncover the truth of his predecessor Laius’s death out of a stubbornly ...

Oedipus is surprised by soothsayer Tiresias, here imagined as a blind, homeless savant, and takes it out on his campaign manager, Creon (Michael Gould), Jocasta’s brother. A bit unfair.

In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, a digital clock ticks down the seconds to zero. It’s a trick Icke ...

In Oedipus, Writer/Director Robert Icke’s highly political reimagining of Sophocles timeless play, Oedipus Rex ... along with his campaign manager, Creon (Michael Gould). Creon is also Jocasta ...