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.
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,
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.
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Oedipus: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are agonising, but it’s too little, too late
Robert Icke’s free adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy ought to grip with sickening implacability, but fails to do so until the climax
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.
Oedipus review: Lesley Manville is at the height of her powers
Fine as Strong is, this is without a doubt Manville’s evening. This glorious actress, now at the height of her powers, is magnetic and magnificent in the mastery with which she peels back the complex layers of Jocasta’s personality, revealing her to be loving and open but with a core of steel.
Unscripted: Award winning actors Lesley Manville & Mark Strong on their West End play Oedipus
Stars of the stage and screen, Lesley Manville and Mark Strong join Arts Editor Nina Nannar to discuss Robert Icke’s adaptation of Oedipus. | ITV National News
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
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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 ...
The Other Place: an 'excruciatingly funny' and 'shockingly frank' take on Antigone
But both of them "will have to be exceptional to match the sheer cathartic power" of "The Other Place", a "very loose" retelling of "Antigone" that manages to be naturalistic yet also uncanny.
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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 ...
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Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre
Director Robert Icke brings his interpretation of the Greek tragedy Oedipus to London’s West End. This follows an acclaimed ...