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

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 ...

But this is Robert Icke’s stunning reworking of Oedipus. As that digital clock in the campaign room counts down remorselessly, we watch in queasy horror. It’s not just the election result that ...

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 ...

There’s one scene that occurs in the forthcoming West End staging of Oedipus that its stars Lesley Manville and Mark Strong haven’t yet rehearsed. In ­director Robert Icke’s retelling ...

The Other Place at the National sees the story of Antigone reworked for 2024 and now comes that most complex of men, Oedipus, ...

It’s election night. Oedipus is a slick 21st-century politician who promises to clean things up: his supporters campaign for ...

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting.

“In Greek mythology, the sphinx killed every traveler who failed to answer her riddle, until Oedipus finally solved it, causing the monster’s demise. The answer to Trump lies in every American ...

This is like Oedipus saying, "Who did all this?" And we all point at the TV and say, "It was you!" It’s Herbert Hoover taking a selfie with thumbs up at the Museum of the Great Depression.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Actors Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, right, perform in the play “Oedipus”, in London in Oct. 2024 ...