Oedipus Explored

Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London and Consultant Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford. She has acted as Consultant for numerous professional theatres including the RSC, the National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe. Her most recent books include Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun (2010) and Introducing the Ancient Greeks (2014). She is the winner of the European Academy's Erasmus Prize 2015 for her research.

For the Almeida: The House of Bernarda Alba.

Theatre includes: A Taste of Honey; Emil and the Detectives; Romeo and Juliet; Damned by Despair; The Kitchen; War Horse (US tour); Greenland; Our Class (National Theatre); Moonlight (Donmar Warehouse); The Brothers Size; Eurydice (Young Vic/ATC); Gone Too Far! (Royal Court/ATC); The Typist (Riverside Studios/Sky Arts/ATC); Other Hands; Flush (Soho Theatre); Party Time; One for the Road (BAC); Have I None (Southwark Playhouse).

Opera includes: Tarantula in Petrol Blue (Aldeburgh); Through his Teeth; The Virtues of Things (Royal Opera House).

Film includes: Groove is in the Heart.

Bijan received an Olivier Award in 2008 for his production of Gone Too Far! and was nominated for Olivier Awards for Our Class in 2010 and The Brothers Size in 2008.

David Bell is Past President of the British Psychoanalytic Society. He is a consultant psychiatrist in the Adult Dept. of the Tavistock where he directs a specialist unit for serious/complex psychological disorders. In 2012-13 he was Visiting Professorial Fellow at Birkbeck College London. Throughout his professional career he has been deeply involved in the relation between psychoanalysis and other disciplines: literature, philosophy, culture and socio-political issues and has published in these areas and has written on Hamlet, The Bacchae, Othello and Dorian Gray. He is one of the UKs leading psychiatric experts in asylum and human rights . Publications include Paranoia, Psychoanalysis and Culture, Reason and Passion and Living on the Border.