Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are spellbinding in this wrenchingly tense Greek tragedy
Lesley Manville and Mark Strong are spellbinding in Robert Icke ’s wrenchingly tense reworking of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy.
The Stage5d
Oedipus starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville – review round-up
Rob Icke’s reimagining of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old tragedy boasts a starry cast, but does it have the critics tearing their ...
Newsday4d
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville make ancient tragedy 'Oedipus' a political thriller
Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley ... audience at Wyndham’s Theatre as the truth dawned. “I heard gasping, I heard laughter, and I could hear a pin drop,” Strong told The Associated ...
Oedipus: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are agonising, but it’s too little, too late
Robert Icke’s free adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy ought to grip with sickening implacability but fails to do so until ...
The Independent6d
Oedipus review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a tantalisingly fresh take on the Greek tragedy
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 ... that Icke shows by patterning riddles ...
London Evening Standard6d
Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are spellbinding in this wrenchingly tense Greek tragedy
Strong’s smart, passionate ... At the risk of blurting out the worst-kept spoiler in theatre history, this show is mother**in’ good. At first, Icke’s dusting of contemporary relevance ...