Mark Strong, Lesley Manville and Oedipus
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.
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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 starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville – review round-up
Rob Icke’s reimagining of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old tragedy boasts a starry cast, but does it have the critics tearing their eyes out? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews.
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.
Lesley Manville and Mark Strong on Oedipus: ‘Do men really dream about their mothers like that?’
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 ­“after Sophocles”,
Oedipus West End review – Mark Strong and Lesley Manville’s Greek tragedy is a political thriller
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 the Oedipus complex,
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.
Oedipus review: Lesley Manville is at the height of her powers
This eternal dilemma hums and throbs relentlessly from the start of these hurtling two interval-free hours, as political leader Oedipus (Mark Strong) awaits the results of a general election with his family.
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Oedipus, Wyndham's Theatre review - careful what you wish for
How many times does a politician survive wave after wave of attack from rivals, surf the waves of fickle voters and tiptoe ...
Mark Strong says it’s a ‘shame’ that actors ‘aren’t allowed’ to play ‘parts that they’re not’ any more
British actor says he ‘understands why’ things have changed, but it’s become ‘more and more difficult’ to ‘transport’ himself ...
The Other Place: an 'excruciatingly funny' and 'shockingly frank' take on Antigone
Writer-director Alexander Zeldin strips away the complexities of Sophocles's plot to illuminate brilliantly why a ...
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Oedipus – Wyndham’s Theatre | Review
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville give immaculate performances as Oedipus and Jocasta, bolstered by David Icke's monumental ...