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 ...

The winner of the 2019 Silver Bear award returns to the Berlinale with a film inspired by the tragedy of Oedipus, starring French actors Aliocha Schneider and Agathe Bonitzer. By Jordan Mintzer Writer ...

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 ...

Those who immerse themselves in Sophocles’s most famous version, King Oedipus, whether following events on the page or the stage, experience a play of many parts: a searing character study, a perverse ...

Dallas Theater Center’s artistic director Kevin Moriarty loves big-budget visual gimmickry, but for Oedipus el Rey, playwright Luis Alfaro’s contemporary adaptation of the 2,500-year-old Greek myth, ...

Yet the gods had another of the Sown Men in mind, one of the third generation: for he has killed his father and married his mother. Know, Queen Jocasta, that it is your husband Oedipus!” At first, ...

Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and ...

British writer-director Robert Icke has wrestled Sophocles into 2025, breathtakingly so, with his starkly intense revival ...