Oedipus " review
Liverpool PlayhouseSophocles's Oedipus may be 2,500 years old, but Steven Berkoff's version looks as if it got stuck, theatrically, in the 1970s. That's not to say it isn't a striking evening, in which Berkoff constantly borrows from himself as well as from the imagery of Renaissance and modern art. From the opening scene around a long dark table in which Simon Merrells's Oedipus is cast as Jesus at the last supper (…