What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths ... That accolade belongs to a gyrating chorus of dancers representing the desperate people of Thebes.

The Chorus is left onstage, restating what has occurred. The Messenger arrives and brings the news that Queen Jocasta has killed herself. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current ...

As I sank into my chair at the start of the brilliant Yeats translation of Rex, I wanted to close my ... man of the stage and by rights cast as Oedipus the young man, spoke gloriously in his ...

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

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 ...