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.
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. His promise to govern openly and honestly opens up the worst possible cache of family secrets, from patricide to incest.
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,
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb in stunning staging of Oedipus — review
Robert Icke’s adaptation at Wyndham’s Theatre brilliantly remakes the disturbing tragedy for our time
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.
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