In Luis Alfaro’s sharp and vigorous play, the the bones of Sophocles’ tale remain intact. Set in Los Angeles, the characters ...
This double-disc Blu-ray/DVD package offers an ideal opportunity to assess the place of Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) in the history of ideas about the ancient world. Paradoxically, much of what we think ...
Playwright-director Robert Ickes’ remarkable, modern-dress adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus is significantly different from that ancient version (no Rex in the title, for starters) that Ickes ...
Berlinale competition film “Music” opens with gray clouds racing across the face of a Greek mountain as a storm prepares to break. It is a suitably dramatic prelude to the tumultuous events that will ...
Berlin: Angela Schanelec's formally impressive film boggles as much as it allures. A multi-layered allegorical brainteaser, “Music” reframes the Oedipus myth as a substitution cipher, swapping words ...
With: Anthony Bate, Rosalie Crutchley, Sheila Allen and Sir Patrick Stewart Telly addict Andrew Collins casts his critical eye over New Worlds (above), Klondike, The Trip to Italy, Endeavour and ...
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” this year’s livelier-than-usual outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa, combines disparate ritual traditions. Ancient Greek tragedy is ...
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