So you haven't read Oedipus the King by Sophocles? Well, get your tragedy mask ready as we tell you about this masterpiece that has influenced the structure of western drama for millennia!

This version of Sophocles' play deals fairly superficially with the bare bones of the tragic story of the king, dragged down ... Christopher Plummer as Oedipus gives a sterling performance.

doesn’t abide by the structural conventions that Sophocles established in his earlier play “Oedipus the King.” Nor is the conflict as neatly organized as it is in “Antigone,” the last ...

In the end, he discovered that the old man he had killed in a fit of rage years earlier was none other than the former king of Thebes — his father — and that his queen was, in fact, his mother. Though ...

Creon (Shane Blauvelt) returns and reports that they need to find the murderer of Laius, the former king. Oedipus swears he will find and punish the man. He summons Tiresias (Ian Cannioto), the ...

Vietnamese audiences saw what’s believed to be the first-ever Vietnamese production of King Oedipus through an online festival in May 2021. The play, directed by Bùi Nhu Lai, was performed and ...

But he is rescued and raised by King Polybus in Corinth. As a grown man, Oedipus hears another prophecy, that he’ is destined to slay his father and wed his mother, so he flees to Thebes ...