After the expansiveness of Oedipus at the Old Vic, complete with dancing chorus, this version of Sophocles’s Elektra specialises in stripped back starkness – and comes with a singing chorus in true ...

Where Icke’s was all sleekness and surgical precision, this one, co-directed by Matthew Warchus and choreographer Hofesh ...

What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening ...

It’s difficult to imagine anyone watching Oedipus without having prior knowledge of the story’s brutal twist - especially the ...

Imagine stepping into the theatre and being instantly enveloped by a pulsing, musical heartbeat—an unmistakable sign that you ...

The mythical cycle of Argos involves many well-known stories and characters, such as Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes. One of the only surviving tragic trilogies centers on these characters and ...

“I’ve read Ajax,” their companion replied, assuringly. “It’s not complicated.” Maybe it’s this interpretation, then, which frames the mythological drama of Trojan war hero Ajax as an American ...

The Pepperdine Theatre Department's winter show features a production of "Iphigenia Among the Taurians." The show, directed ...

No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it ...

Greek tragedy has long held a place in the hearts of theatre aficionados, offering a window into universal themes of fate, identity, and the human ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Brian Greenwood started work as a British medic in west Africa in the 1960s, he encountered medieval ...