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Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville return to the London stage in director Robert Icke’s adaptation, “Oedipus,” ...

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are spellbinding in this wrenchingly tense Greek tragedy - 4/5 Strong is superb and surely ...

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 ...

But he makes incisive alterations to the text, enriching the network of family bonds around Oedipus and fleshing out Jocasta’s backstory in fascinating detail. The piece has a cumulative power ...

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a tantalisingly fresh take on the Greek tragedy - 4/5 Writer and director Robert Icke ...

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 ...

Return to Rome “Trachiniae”: the most surprising tragedy by Sophocles directed by Walter ... with such a mysterious distance. Like Oedipus, she is troubled by enigmas and ambiguous oracles ...

Jocasta has been questioned by Oedipus for details on the death of King Laius. When she asks what burden Oedipus is carrying and to share his information, this is his reply. A curse has taken a ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...