Oedipus review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a tantalisingly fresh take on the Greek tragedy - 4/5 Writer and director Robert Icke reinvents the well-known story as a taut political ...

Lesley Manville and Mark Strong are spellbinding in Robert Icke’s wrenchingly tense reworking of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy. Here Oedipus is an insurgent political wunderkind, a bit Macron and a ...

There’s one scene that occurs in the forthcoming West End staging of Oedipus that its stars Lesley Manville and Mark Strong haven’t yet rehearsed. In ­director Robert Icke’s retelling ...

Oedipus' starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville will begin performances at Broadway's Studio 54 on October 30 with an opening night on November 13.

The Other Place at the National sees the story of Antigone reworked for 2024 and now comes that most complex of men, Oedipus, as presented by writer-director Robert Icke.Icke made his name as an ...

It is hard to imagine a single person watching Oedipus who does not already know the hideous way this story turns out.This was true when Sophocles first staged his play, based on well-known myths, in ...

Oedipus, Robert Icke’s West End hit reimagining of the Sophocles tragedy starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, will transfer to Broadway this fall for a 14-week engagement as part of the ...

Created and directed by Robert Icke, Oedipus comes to Broadway after a West End run, also starring Strong and Manville, which has been nominated for four Olivier Awards and was the highest-growing ...

With this in mind, it’s a neat touch for Robert Icke to open his adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus with his presumptive ruler presiding over something very like a Whitehall press event.

S urely the most powerful production the UK will see this year, Robert Icke's adaptation of "Oedipus" turns Sophocles' 5th century BC drama into an electrifying "play for today", said Susannah ...

The Broadway transfer of the recent West End production of Oedipus – an adaptation created by Robert Icke – will begin performances on Broadway on Thursday, October 30, 2025, with an opening ...