Oedipus at Colonus is the second-last of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson at the ...

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

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

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.

Stage and screen veterans Mark Strong and Lesley Manville have returned to the West End, teaming up for Robert Icke’s new adaptation of Oedipus. Following yesterday’s opening night performance, which ...

The progress of Robert Icke’s devastating modern-day version of Oedipus is from ceaseless noise to stunned silence. It opens with Mark Strong’s smooth-talking, charismatic political leader talking on ...

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

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 ...

The Other Place at the National sees the story of Antigone reworked for 2024 and now comes that most complex of men, Oedipus, as presented by writer-director Robert Icke. Icke made his name as an ...