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  1. 1 day ago · Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville return to the London stage in director Robert Icke’s adaptation, “Oedipus,” which fuses the primal power of the ancient tragedy with a modern-day ...

  2. 3 days ago · Mark Strong (left of picture) as Oedipus with Lesley Manville as Jocasta (Photo: Manuel Harlan) With echoes of recent events in both French and American politics, his wife Jocasta (Lesley Manville ...

  3. 3 days ago · Reviews are coming in from London theatre critics for Oedipus at the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre in London, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.. Robert Icke (Player Kings, The Doctor) adapts and directs a modern, political take on Sophocles’ epic Greek drama, featuring an all-star cast including Mark Strong (The Kingsman, A View from the Bridge, The Long Firm) as Oedipus, and ...

  4. 3 days ago · The West End was next, with Mark Strong and Helen Mirren cast as Oedipus and his mother Jocasta, before Covid had other ideas. Four years later, and Strong returns with the production, while Lesley Manville delivers an astonishing performance as Jocasta in this lean and pacy production, which reframes Sophocles’ story of incest, power, and ignorance within the context of a political contest.

  5. 3 days ago · 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 film about his promise to bring truth and honesty back to politics, surrounded by excitable crowds. It ends with him alone, amidst the rubble ...

  6. 3 days ago · 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. Strong is full of a fearless, sometimes fearsome integrity as Oedipus, with Manville bringing a brittle sensuality to the role of his wife Jocasta.

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  8. 3 days ago · Robert Icke’s present-day reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy is officially open. 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 was lauded as “astonishing” by WhatsOnStage’s lead ...

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