Rami Malek and Indira Varma star in a London production that uses dance brilliantly but lacks emotional connection ...
In fact, if it weren’t for the supernova-level pull of Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek, it’s likely that this Oedipus would ...
This overcooked, jarring production is the latest iteration of West End star casting and the craze has surely reached a nadir ...
The Old Vic offers even starrier casting in the form of Oscar winner Rami Malek – but he’s all adrift in a bewilderingly ...
Sudden blackouts blind the audience, but set design is the most interesting thing about this unbalanced production of the ...
Ella Hickson’s epic and revelatory version of Sophocles’ transcendent tragedy, Oedipus, co-directed by Hofesh ...
It’s difficult to imagine anyone watching Oedipus without having prior knowledge of the story’s brutal twist - especially the ...
For long stretches the set is in half-darkness, Oedipus's face only fitfully prominent ... being partly obscured like this would be no disadvantage. Malek is not that kind of actor. His mercurial ...
Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of light, unable to escape his destiny. A blackout and d ...
Icke presented a very contemporary picture with Oedipus a Western-style politician who is seeking election, surrounded by a ...
Brie Larson's riot grrrl Greek is an exercise in alienation - Larson is extraordinary but this production tests the limits of ...
Rami Malek is recounting his at-times complicated upbringing as ... Malek will next star in Ella Hickson’s new stage adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy “Oedipus” at London’s Old Vic theatre. It ...