Oedipus' starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville will begin performances at Broadway's Studio 54 on October 30 with an ...

Oedipus, Robert Icke‘s West End hit reimagining of the Sophocles tragedy starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, will transfer to Broadway this fall for a 14-week engagement as part of the ...

It strikes a pleasing balance: the Sphinx’s strong body is set against Oedipus’s lithe frame, and her wings, in gauzy, lilac-tinged grays, echo his upturned arm, bent to clasp his crimson lance.

With this in mind, it’s a neat touch for Robert Icke to open his adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus with his presumptive ruler presiding over something very like a Whitehall press event.

Oedipus first premiered in Amsterdam in 2018, ... Icke deliberately follows ancient Greek dramatic tradition by setting his play in a single space, the action spooling out in real time ...

For long stretches the set is in half-darkness, Oedipus's face only fitfully prominent. Even when he stands at the front of the stage in a modern double-breasted suit, addressing his citizens via the ...

Then the play proper starts, adapted by Ella Hickson as a climate crisis drama in which Thebes is ravaged by drought. Rae Smith’s spare set, just recessing proscenium arches, beautifully ...

Oedipus, the West End hit starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, will begin its 14-week engagement at Broadway’s Studio 54 on Thursday, October 30, with an opening night set for Thursday ...