Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma star at the Old Vic in Ella Hickson’s revelatory and intimate version of Oedipus, Sophocles’ transcendent tragedy, co-directed by Hofesh Shechter and Matthew Warchus.
‘Vengeance must be taken on the killer, only then will the land be clean. The contamination will wash away. The rain will come, and people will finally be healed.’
Even though it’s a cold case, according to the Oracle, as long as the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished, all will be well. The people turn to the man who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, their new King, Oedipus, to hunt down, find the perpetrator, and bring them salvation. Oedipus vows to succeed, no matter the cost, and so begins his unstoppable pursuit of the truth through a harrowing labyrinth of love and fear.