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Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by actor/manager Charles Wyndham (the other is the Criterion Theatre). Located on Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster , it was designed c. 1898 by W. G. R. Sprague , the architect of six other London theatres between then and 1916.
Greek is a verse play by Steven Berkoff.It was first performed at The Half Moon Theatre, London on 11 February 1980.It is a retelling of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.Berkoff wrote:
Jake Dunn attends the press night performance of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" at Wyndham's Theatre on April 2, 2024 in London, England. ... Oedipus and Death of a Salesman. He starred in a ...
The New was the second of the three theatres in St Martin's Lane.The Trafalgar Square (now the Duke of York's) opened in 1892 and the London Coliseum in 1904. The actor-manager Charles Wyndham, who had been based at the Criterion Theatre for more than twenty years, moved in 1899 to the larger Wyndham's Theatre which he commissioned in Charing Cross Road.
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Wyndham's Theatre, designed by W. G. R. Sprague, had a deeper and wider stage than the Criterion, and the auditorium had a 20 per cent larger capacity. [35] Wyndham opened his new theatre with a revival of David Garrick, donating the first night's takings of £4,000 to charity. [19]
Oedipus (UK: / ˈ iː d ɪ p ə s /, also US: / ˈ ɛ d ə-/; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family.
Seven Against Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας, Hepta epi Thēbas; Latin: Septem contra Thebas) is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. [2]