This eternal dilemma hums and throbs relentlessly from the start of these hurtling two interval-free hours, as political ...

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

The clock is ticking. The votes are in, the election decided, the political leaders’ fate determined — it’s now just a countdown to the moment of truth when all is revealed. Mark Strong’s politician ...

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

Alfonso Cuarón’s gripping "Disclaimer" pits Cate Blanchett against Kevin Kline in a thriller of long-held secrets exposed to ...

Rob Icke’s reimagining of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old tragedy boasts a starry cast, but does it have the critics tearing their ...

Oedipus first premiered in Amsterdam in 2018, performed in Dutch, then played Edinburgh International Festival a year later.

Starring the internationally renowned, multi award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is ...

Again, the series isn’t all terrible, but it’s certainly an acquired taste. Lesley Manville as Nancy is the hero MVP ...

Lauren Laverne talks to actor Lesley Manville in a programme first broadcast in 2023. Lesley Manville made her debut on the ...

In the course of the two-hour playing time, Icke ratchets up enough tension to cause gasps in certain parts of the audience who have either forgotten or perhaps never knew that when Freud talked about ...

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