Teiresias tells Oedipus that Oedipus is the murderer he seeks. That Oedipus killed King Laius and the resulting plague is due to his trangressions. Oedipus does not believe Teiresias and feels ...

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

'Sophocles … created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama …' With these words Dr ...

But this is Robert Icke’s stunning reworking of Oedipus. As that digital clock in the campaign room counts down remorselessly, we watch in queasy horror. It’s not just the election result that ...

It seamlessly transports the play’s themes of power, politics, arrogance and the human thirst for knowledge into the 21st century: by no means an easy feat, as the original plot involves prophecies, ...