This double-disc Blu-ray/DVD package offers an ideal opportunity to assess the place of Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) in the history of ideas about the ancient world. Paradoxically, much of what we think ...

The New Works Play Lab aims to give graduate student-actors in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory experience with developing a new ...

The Company Theatre continues its 2023-24 season with the Sophocles' classic OEDIPUS REX, running February 15-25 at the historic Temple Building Theater, 50 Liberty Pole Way, in Rochester. “The ...

Lynn Kozak has worked for and consulted with Scapegoat Carnivale Theatre. They have received funding from SSHRC and, through Scapegoat Carnivale, the Canada Council for the Arts. McGill University ...

I prepare them for Sophocles from the first week, when I distribute the syllabuses. “And there, you see, in the seventh week, we’ll read and talk about a play called Oedipus Rex.” “What’s it about?” ...

So here we are at the holiest of the theater's holies: Greek tragedy. Angels seldom tread in this territory; the Greeks raise dramaturgical challenges -- rigid dialogue and peculiar chorus, for ...

In Greek tragedy, the protagonist is often a figure of greatness brought low by a fatal flaw. For Oedipus, that flaw was his impetuousness and quick temper. He lashed out at the prophet, dismissing ...

Luis Alfaro takes “Oedipus Rex” and moves it up a few millennia to the streets of present-day Los Angeles. He calls his new adaptation “Oedipus el Rey,” but a more apt title would be “Oedipus Sex.” ...

It took nearly three millenia, but, finally, on January 15, 1912 – exactly one hundred years ago today – Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King” was performed in the English language for the first time ...