Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville return to the London stage in director Robert Icke’s adaptation, “Oedipus,” ...

In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, ...

Oedipus first premiered in Amsterdam in 2018, performed in Dutch, then played Edinburgh International Festival a year later.

How many times does a politician survive wave after wave of attack from rivals, surf the waves of fickle voters and tiptoe ...

This production imagines Oedipus (Mark Strong) as a contemporary politician ... it is certainly true with this modern reimagining, written and directed by Robert Icke. As the Cambridge University ...

In the course of the two-hour playing time, Icke ratchets up enough tension to cause gasps in certain parts of the audience who have either forgotten or perhaps never knew that when Freud talked about ...

Robert Icke’s contemporary take on the tragedy is ... contemporary symbolism has lost its edge since the original run: Oedipus is dogged by ‘birther’ conspiracies and pressured to release ...

And then of course this means I love you now forever, just as long as you can stay inside this lemon egg of time your mouth ...

In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, a digital clock ticks down the seconds to zero. It’s a trick Icke ...