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

The clock is ticking. The votes are in, the election decided, the political leaders’ fate determined — it’s now just a countdown to the moment of truth when all is revealed. Mark Strong’s politician ...

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

This production imagines Oedipus (Mark Strong) as a contemporary politician – and achieves a level of catharsis rare for any ...

Rob Icke’s reimagining of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old tragedy boasts a starry cast, but does it have the critics tearing their ...

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

British actor says he ‘understands why’ things have changed, but it’s become ‘more and more difficult’ to ‘transport’ himself ...

This eternal dilemma hums and throbs relentlessly from the start of these hurtling two interval-free hours, as political ...

There’s one scene that occurs in the forthcoming West End staging of Oedipus that its stars Lesley Manville and Mark Strong ...

Starring the internationally renowned, multi award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is ...

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 ...

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville give immaculate performances as Oedipus and Jocasta, bolstered by David Icke's monumental ...