You can perform impossible feats, be a wise and respected leader, even solve the riddle of the Sphinx – but if you end up ...

Bewildering chaos with Rami Malek strangely mannered - 3/5 Rami Malek seems like he’s on a different planet is this ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma star in a London production that uses dance brilliantly but lacks emotional connection ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of ...

It’s difficult to imagine anyone watching Oedipus without having prior knowledge of the story’s brutal twist - especially the ...

The opening scene of the Old Vic’s Oedipus is dominated by a giant backdrop of a skull-like face, eyes shut and rock-like. It ...

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Oedipus starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma has finally arrived at the Old Vic and the tension was palpable from start to finish.

But the overall message is unclear: in the end – spoilers for a 2,500-year-old play – populism wins, pragmatism is wrong and religious zealotry is vindicated. Opeipus, in thinking himself ...

This version struggles to sustain its dramatic tension, its detached ideas never quite forming a cohesive whole.