Los Angeles Times

An impassioned musical revival of ‘The Gospel at Colonus’ draws from the book of Oedipus

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 ...
The New Yorker

Daisy Johnson’s Uncanny Début Novel Rewrites Oedipus

In his essay “Das Unheimliche,” published in 1919, Sigmund Freud set forth his concept of the “uncanny”: the ordinary or familiar made strange. For him, the word defined the experience of seeing an ...
Los Angeles Times

Elvis kills dad, marries mom as Troubies shake up Sophocles in ‘Oedipus the King, Mama!’ at the Getty Villa

Tragedy and comedy make freaky bedfellows in “Oedipus the King, Mama!” This latest romp from Troubadour Theater Company turns the Getty Villa’s annual outdoor theater production into a Freudian ...
The Financial Times

Oedipus at the Old Vic theatre review — a stark, physical staging of Sophocles’ tragedy

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Maybe it’s coincidence. Or maybe there’s something in the air that has drawn theatre directors recently to an ...
London Evening Standard

Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are spellbinding in this wrenchingly tense Greek tragedy

Strong’s smart, passionate, utterly believable relationship with the luminous Manville as his older wife Jocasta roots the unravelling suspense as a rear-stage digital clock ticks down to Oedipus’s ...