Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary world where the title character is running to be prime minister of the U.K.

The German director's exquisitely mounted tenth feature adheres to and diverges from the Sophocles play in demanding, fascinating ways. Quite what a viewer who doesn’t go in knowing that Schanelec is ...

Critic's Pick. Icke’s change in timeline trades catastrophe for suspense, ontological disaster for down-to-the-cuticles nail biting. Is this a fair exchange? Maybe. Is it electrifying? God, yes. The ...

Drama? The Greeks had a word for it. Several words, in fact, and Tom Amen knows them all. Golden West College’s theater instructor and director will tell you that our word “theater” springs from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Playwright-director Robert Ickes’ remarkable, modern-dress adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus is significantly different ...

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