Icke's take on Oedipus makes for a compelling night at the theatre. Perhaps a truly modern version, though, would have ...

The age to start seeing a geriatrician has traditionally been set at 65 years, coinciding with the typical age of retirement ...

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

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

Lesley Manville and Mark Strong are spellbinding in Robert Icke ’s wrenchingly tense reworking of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy.

shambles into Oedipus’s clean white office to predict his fate – the politician dismisses it as “new age fear mongering”, with Icke drawing subtle parallels between ancient Greek mysticism ...

At first, Icke’s dusting of contemporary relevance seems too heavy. We see Oedipus on screen amid placard-waving admirers, calling out fake news and promising to publish his birth certificate.