This production imagines Oedipus (Mark Strong) as a contemporary politician – and achieves a level of catharsis rare for any ...

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

In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, ...

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

Writer-director Alexander Zeldin strips away the complexities of Sophocles's plot to illuminate brilliantly why a ...

In the smaller Upstairs Theatre, New Diorama regulars Kandinsky Theatre – aka Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman – make their Court debuts with intriguing ‘sci-fi gothic horror’ More Life (Feb 6-Mar 8 ...

Robert Icke is to make his Royal Court debut with the world premiere of Manhunt in the London theatre’s 24/25 season, which also features the revival of Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis ...

How many times does a politician survive wave after wave of attack from rivals, surf the waves of fickle voters and tiptoe ...

Sarah Kane’s final masterpiece *4.48 Psychosis* will close artistic director David Byrne's second season, and will star the ...

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville give immaculate performances as Oedipus and Jocasta, bolstered by David Icke's monumental ...

“We had a little bit of everything, which is perfect.” Icke sets the action in a campaign headquarters on election night. Strong’s Oedipus is a charismatic outsider politician on the verge ...

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 ...