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Ralph Fiennes is a stunningly versatile sufferer. You can see him suffer coolly and quietly throughout The Reader, but if you want to see him rage and seethe and explode and implode, get yourself over to London’s National Theatre and watch him hurtle heroically through Jonathan Kent’s production of Sophocles’s Oedipus. In a swift hundred minutes, Fiennes zooms from proud disdain to pitiable (and terrifying) self-demolition; in between, he dances sensually with his business-suited Greek chorus and crumbles in fear beside his wife/mother, Jocasta, sturdily played by Clare Higgins – all on a viciously raked stage that slowly revolves under his feet, as treacherous as fate. |






