Oedipus at Olivier Theatre

Ralph Fiennes plays the title role in a new adaptation of Sophocles tragedy by Frank McGuinness directed by Jonathan Kent.

The people of Thebes look to Oedipus to lift a terrible curse from them and their city. He consults the oracle and learns that he must root out the late king's murderer. But his relentless interrogation of one man after another leads inexorably, and in the space of a single day, to his own savage conclusion.

Joining Ralph Fiennes are Alan Howard as Teiresias, Clare Higgins as Jocasta and Jasper Britton as Creon.