The science also teaches us that we make sense of our experience through stories. It’s just the way the mind works. When we ...

While artificial intelligence continues to take the world by storm, Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayada Akhtar unleashed this ...

will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms ...

From "Oedipus Rex" to "Phantom Thread," some of the greatest dramatic works ever put to paper or celluloid have revolved around family. The ties that bind. And occasionally strangle. Sometimes you ...

and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who wrote The Trojan Trilogy, of which only The Trojan Women survives, as well as two other important plays about the roles of women: The Phoenician Women and The ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...

Learn all about the political drama starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville – and find your Oedipus West End tickets now Oedipus was abandoned on a mountain top as a baby because his father ...

It’s just the way the mind works. When we watch or read Oedipus Rex, we identify with Oedipus, become him through a process called neural coupling, and experience the peripeteia as our own.

Jocasta has been questioned by Oedipus for details on the death of King Laius. When she asks what burden Oedipus is carrying and to share his information, this is his reply. A curse has taken a ...