is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third actor, while Euripides added both a prologue, introducing the subject of the play, and the deus ex machina ...

Hopefully it’s still worth reading. The conceit of Graney’s play is that each of the Sophocles plays revolves around a sickness or wound of some sort. Thus: Oedipus’s land is cursed with ...

Two concurrent London productions of Oedipus might seem like overkill, but they actually worked to demonstrate the ...

And how far do modern ideas about tragedy, derived from Aristotle, apply to Sophocles’ plays? They then look in more detail at Oedipus Tyrannos and Antigone and what the plays have to say about agency ...

The play, which sets Sophocles’ Greek tragedy in modern times on election night, is set to play Studio 54 for a 14-week run starting in November. The revival of the Rocky Horror Picture Show ...