What Icke’s take did so compellingly was to emphasise the connection, the chemistry, the sexual frisson between Oedipus and Jocasta, thus making the play’s domino chain of revelations even more devastating. In Ella Hickson’s adaptation the couple are distant from the start, Jocasta (Indira Varma) crisp, rational and frustrated with her husband’s faith in oracles and prophecies. In this modern-dress no-man’s-land of a perilously drought-stricken Thebes, religious observance is expected from its leaders. Yet as Donald Trump discovered recently, flaunting your faith is politically useful until you come up against an obdurate bishop.
Rami Malek as Oedipus and Indira Varma as Jocasta with dancers from the Hofesh Shechter Company (Photo: Manuel Harlan)Asa Butterfield has nowhere to hide in his brave stage debut
Read MoreWarchus has decided to replace the traditional Greek chorus – a device that looks ever more alienating to modern eyes – with 10 contemporary dancers from the Hofesh Shecter Company and an opening scene of frenzied movement is eloquently redolent of a desperate society in the fever of religious ecstasy. The dancing is undoubtedly powerful and emotive, but the trouble with these lengthy, wordless episodes is that they fatally disrupt the momentum of what should be the undiluted hurtle of Sophocles’s storytelling.
To 29 March, Old Vic, London (0344 871 7628, oldvictheatre.com)
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Rami Malek fans might want their money back after seeing Oedipus )
Also on site :
- Country 'MVP' Refunds Entire Audience Mid-Concert and Fans 'Cannot Believe He Did That'
- Trump fija nuevo plazo de negociación de dos semanas y desencadena esfuerzo urgente por reanudar las conversaciones con Irán
- With Property Seized and Federal Funding Uncertain, Montana Asbestos Clinic Fights for Its Life