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My second star-led Sophocles in the space of a week provides some interesting points to compare and contrast with Oedipus : Both revivals u...

Oedipus cements his place as London's favourite motherfucker by returning with a new face mere weeks after he finished appearing in the...

The same plays or themes do sometimes crop up several times in quick succession - particular stories will strike multiple people as topical...

The Open Air Theatre's set designers seem to have gone for a thematic progression over the 2022 season: For Legally Blonde  the set was...

Kae Tempest's Paradise was originally due to run in the Olivier last summer, which makes it the latest rescheduled show to have me won...

The second episode in the BBC's virtual theatre festival Lights Up  appears to be a TV original - no co-producing theatre is credited a...

Whatever else I might have to say about it, there's something to admire about a play that's had to stick a note on the doors of th...

Already celebrated internationally, Ivo van Hove became an instant superstar director in London as well last year, by stripping down Arthu...

Topless men covered in treacle may not be the first thing that comes to mind about Greek tragedy, but then Sophocles' Philoctetes doe...

The current in-the-round configuration at the Old Vic is a suitably exposed setting for a good, but stark production of Sophocles' Ele...

I don't think I've seen The Faction tackle Greek Tragedy before - surprising really, as the importance of the Chorus would seeming...

A figure of pure brute force, Ajax isn't one of the best-loved heroes of the Trojan War, better known nowadays for his bathroom scouri...

At Southwark Playhouse last year, Tom Littler's Middle East-set Antigone became unexpectedly topical when it coincided with the death...