Mark Strong, Lesley Manville and Oedipus
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Oedipus: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are agonising, but it’s too little, too late
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 used to queasily tense effect in his 2015 version of The Oresteia,
Oedipus review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a tantalisingly fresh take on the Greek tragedy
Oedipus first premiered in Amsterdam in 2018, performed in Dutch, then played Edinburgh International Festival a year later. This belated West End visit retains the original’s stark European feel, but has a new cast anchored by the undeniable chemistry of its stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb in stunning staging of Oedipus — review
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Review Roundup: Did Mark Strong and Lesley Manville Dazzle in OEDIPUS?
Starring the internationally renowned, multi award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller.
Unscripted: Award winning actors Lesley Manville & Mark Strong on their West End play Oedipus
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Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are spellbinding in this wrenchingly tense Greek tragedy
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 bit Obama.
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