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 ...

Writer-director Alexander Zeldin strips away the complexities of Sophocles's plot to illuminate brilliantly why a 2,500-year-old play – about a young woman who defies her uncle, with tragic ...

As in his previous free adaptations of plays by the Greeks and Chekhov ... not least because Alexander Zeldin’s updating of ...

In this, it bears some comparison with another new Sophocles adaptation, Alexander Zeldin’s looser ... purify his reputation in the public eye. The play also succeeds brilliantly as a mystery thriller ...

The classicist John Tresidder Sheppard deemed Sophoclean language "hard to analyse, impossible to translate", said Arifa ...

Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks also celebrated the arts with big festivals.

In an era of political discontent, when voices demanding justice rise with intensity, Oedipus Rex, directed by Declan ...

A HARROWING Greek tale is given a modern take in the spiritual space of Holy Trinity at the weekend. Jean Anouilh’s version ...

That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the ... his family and his life. In this play, secrets may fester, but the truth is deadly.

This was true when Sophocles first staged his play, based on well-known myths, in fifth century BC Athens; it is certainly true with this modern reimagining, written and directed by Robert Icke. As ...

In this play, secrets may fester, but the truth is deadly. Strong said Oedipus’ tragic flaw is what another character calls his “honesty fetish.” “He is obsessed with the truth,” Strong ...