Oedipus
$28.53
- Paperback
48 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2025
Summary
Oedipus: A Harrowing Pursuit of Truth
‘Vengeance will be taken on the killer, then the land will be clean. The contamination will be washed away. The rains will come and the people will be healed.’
According to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished then all will be well. The people turn to their new ruler, Oedipus, the man who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, to hunt down the perpetrator and bring salvation.
He vows to succeed w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839044106 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839044101 |
| Series: | NHB Classic Plays |
| Author: | Sophocles, Ella Hickson |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 60g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 4mm |
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Critics Review
‘Seamy and superb… irresistible’
* Guardian *‘Summons up a timeless realm rooted in primeval myth… lots of deft touches’
* The Times *‘Dazzling’
* WhatsOnStage *‘A wily adaptation [that] hints at scathing insecurity bubbling beneath Oedipus’s calm demeanour… Hickson’s version is closely knitted to the intricacies of the original but subtly recalibrates emotions’
* Broadway World *‘Powerful and captivating… Ella Hickson’s writing impresses throughout’
* All That Dazzles *About The Author
Sophocles
Sophocles (c.496–405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Of his more than 120 plays, only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.
Ella Hickson is an award-winning writer whose work has been performed throughout the UK and abroad. Her work includes: an adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus (Old Vic, London, 2025); Swive [Elizabeth] (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, 2019); ANNA (National Theatre, 2019); The Writer (Almeida Theatre, 2018); Oil (Almeida Theatre, London, 2016); Wendy & Peter Pan (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2013 and 2015; Tokyo, 2021); Riot Girls (Radio 4); Boys (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton / Headlong Theatre / HighTide Festival Theatre, 2012); The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron/Traverse Theatre, 2012); Rightfully Mine (Radio 4); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios/Tantrums Productions, 2011), Hot Mess (Arcola Tent/ Tantrums Productions, 2010) and Eight (Trafalgar Studios/Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, 2008⁄9). Author photo by Peter Hickson
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