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Modern Adaptation Of Oedipus Blends Ancient Tragedy With Politics

Experience a contemporary take on 'Oedipus' in a political setting, blending timeless themes with modern narratives and powerful performances.

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Mark Strong and Lesley Manville make ancient tragedy 'Oedipus' a political thriller

One of the most basic questions in the world is “Who are you?”

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Drama about hunt for Raoul Moat part of Royal Court’s new season

Other plays to feature include a production of Sarah Kane’s final work and a saga involving a British Museum artefact

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Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are spellbinding in this wrenchingly tense Greek tragedy

Strong is superb and surely there’s no better actress working today than Manville

Evening Standard

Oedipus review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a tantalisingly fresh take on the Greek tragedy

Writer and director Robert Icke reinvents the well-known story as a taut political thriller

The Independent UK

Oedipus review – Lesley Manville and Mark Strong electrify ancient saga turned political thriller

Opening in a campaign room on election night, Robert Icke’s modern retelling is riveting from beginning to end, the formidable leads supported by a stellar ensemble cast

The Guardian - UK

June Watson: ‘In the 1970s at the National you couldn’t rehearse after lunch because everybody had had too much to drink!’

The actor on the extraordinary second life of her stage career, learning lines in your 80s, and the secret of her long marriage

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Ian McKellen shares health update after falling off stage and being taken to hospital

Sir Ian is currently playing John Falstaff in ‘Player Kings’ – a production of William Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ parts one and two

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Player Kings; Red Pitch; Underdog: The Other Other Brontë – review

Ian McKellen reigns supreme in Robert Icke’s Henry IV mashup; Tyrell Williams’s coming-of-age football drama is bang on target; and the Brontë sisters are let loose – up to a point – at the National

The Guardian - UK

Player Kings at Noel Coward Theatre review: Ian McKellen's Falstaff is a remarkable feat of skill and swagger

This rheumy, phlegmy performance by Britain’s greatest living classical actor is played with relish and superb comic timing

Evening Standard

Player Kings review – Ian McKellen’s richly complex Falstaff is magnetic

Mutating from head criminal in a gothic thriller to slippery music hall entertainer, showman McKellen has centripetal force in Robert Icke’s slick, modern dress production

The Guardian - UK

Ian McKellen’s Player Kings to tour England

The play, adapted by Robert Icke from both parts of Henry IV, stars McKellen as John Falstaff for the first time in his career and will take in Bristol, Birmingham and Newcastle after its West End run

The Guardian - UK

Mother of all messes as two Oedipus productions announced in London

Old Vic announces play starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma just 30 minutes after Wyndham’s confirms Robert Icke staging

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to see in 2024: from Sarah Jessica Parker’s West End debut to Sarah Snook’s one-woman show

A-listers are treading the boards in force and your favourite films are being transformed for the stage. Jessie Thompson brings you our ultimate guide to what to see at the theatre in 2024

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The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024

The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano

Evening Standard

Andrew Scott: our Best Actor winner – 'maybe I’ve acted a bit too much in the last few years'

The stage and screen star called Vanya 'a little bit mad' but people flew from all over the world to see it

Evening Standard

OPINION - Ian McKellen's thrilling new show is just the kind of innovation the Evening Standard Theatre Awards celebrate

Our annual celebration of theatre is packed with fresh takes and new stories

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Ian McKellen will play Falstaff in Robert Icke's new Henry IV Shakespeare adaptation

Player Kings will see parts one and two of Shakespeare's 13th century historical drama compacted into one exhilarating new play

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Evening Standard

Our pick of the 50 best plays of the 21st century

The last two decades have been full of extraordinary theatre – it’s a thrilling indication of what’s ahead of us when doors reopen

Evening Standard

The Doctor at the Duke of York’s Theatre review: Juliet Stevenson is at the top of her game

A very potent evening in the theatre

The Guardian - UK

The Doctor review – a repeat prescription for acute intellectual stimulation

Robert Icke’s combative 2019 play about medical ethics, identity politics and antisemitism returns to the West End to divide and challenge audiences

The Guardian - UK

Tearing up the script: how playwright Robert Icke transforms the classics

As the award-winning writer and director prepares to bring The Doctor, his adaptation of the 1912 play Professor Bernhardi, to the West End, Andrzej Lukowski discusses Icke’s gripping adaptations of classic texts with actor Joshua Higgott

The Guardian - UK

‘Juliet Stevenson is incredible’: what audiences are saying about Robert Icke’s The Doctor

The arresting contemporary adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 drama makes its way to London’s West End this autumn. Here, those who were lucky enough to see it before the pandemic share their thoughts

The Guardian - UK

‘Should you tell a dying child the truth?’ The agonising dilemma at the heart of The Doctor

Robert Icke’s latest play turns on a question that lays bare the tensions between science, religion and identity

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like there’s a live wire in the room’: the subversive on-stage energy of The Doctor

Director Anthony Almeida and cast members Mariah Louca, Doña Croll and Christopher Osikanlu Colquhoun share their thoughts on bringing Robert Icke’s brilliant new play to life – and why it is a work that speaks to the current moment

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