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Oedipus review " delirious dancers and booming soundtrack shake the plasterwork

by David Jays

The Old Vic, LondonRami Malek's outsider vibes enliven seamy, superb new staging of Sophocles' family tragedy Dance in Greek tragedy " why not? The ancient Athenians did it, their choruses a weave of sound and movement, though no one really knows what shapes they threw back in the fifth century. They probably didn't give the hands-in-the-air delirium of Hofesh Shechter's spectacular dancers in this new version of Oed…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42pm on February 4, 2025