The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of ...

But even that medical emergency, so harrowing in recent memory, may not be what Ickes is truly getting at in his much-lauded version of the ancient drama — which originally played at the Edinburgh ...

As playwright Luis Alfaro will tell you, writing a love scene for a guy and his mother is hard work. “You have to make it sexy, but you can’t make it too sexy because it would be too freaky for the ...

A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing but say your mother. It might have seemed like two major London theatres did exactly that when – within 30 minutes of each other – they announced they were ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. But that’s not quite right. For, while Oedipus Rex does raise the above problems, it ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written. With Edith Hall, Nick Lowe and Fiona Macintosh. Show more Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex begins with a warning: ...