‘Mark Strong and Lesley Manville electrify ancient saga turned political thriller’

The Guardian

‘There will surely not be a more powerful production in the UK this year’

The Observer

‘Icke brilliantly remakes Sophocles tragedy for our times’

Financial Times

‘Rob Icke has turned this ancient play into an electric West End thriller’

Mail On Sunday

‘This Oedipus glints with a deadly sharpness’

Time Out

‘This is an extraordinary evening, thanks to Icke, Strong and Manville’

Evening Standard

‘A monumental feat’

The Independent

‘Strong is tremendous. Manville dazzles’

Sunday Times

About the show

Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change.

Starring the internationally renowned, multi award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller.

After his revelatory Oresteia, visionary director Robert Icke (1984, The Doctor) reimagines another Ancient Greek tragedy, bringing the secrets of the past bursting into the present.

The production had its final performance at the Wyndham’s Theatre on 4th January 2025.

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Photography by Manuel Harlan