An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth.

Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by ...

The land ruled by King Oedipus is plagued by ill-fortune and the people are promised relief by the gods if the slayer of the former king is apprehended and punished. This does not bode well for King ...

Two adrenaline-filled new theatrical productions have opened in London that will get audience’s pulses racing–the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Kyoto at Soho Place, and Ella Hickson’s adaption of ...

The Oscar winner came to support former 'Stardust' costar Mark Strong, who leads the production alongside Lesley Manville ...

Berlin: Angela Schanelec's formally impressive film boggles as much as it allures. A multi-layered allegorical brainteaser, “Music” reframes the Oedipus myth as a substitution cipher, swapping words ...

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 should have ...