Cast & Creative

Mark Strong

Mark
Strong

Oedipus

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Mark
Strong

Oedipus

Multi-award-winning actor Mark Strong returns to the stage. He previously appeared in A View from the Bridge directed by Ivo Van Hove (Young Vic, West End and Broadway—Olivier and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor and Tony Award nomination); The Red Barn, Patrick Marber’s CloserDeath of a SalesmanMurmuring  JudgesFuente OvejunaNapoli MilionariaKing Lear and Richard III (National Theatre); Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse—Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor); Speed the Plow (New Ambassadors Theatre); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre); The Thickness of Skin and The Treatment (Royal Court Theatre); Hess is DeadThe Plantagenets and The Man Who Came To Dinner (RSC).

His television credits include Temple (also series Executive Producer); Deep StateLow Winter SunThe Long Firm (Broadcast Guild Award for Best Actor and BAFTA nomination); Prime SuspectThe JuryAnna KareninaOur Friends in the North and the forthcoming Dune: Prophecy and The Penguin with Colin Farrell (HBO) as well as 9 Perfect Strangers (Hulu/Amazon).

An acclaimed film actor, he recently appeared in The Critic with Ian McKellen; Dead Shot with Felicity Jones; Nocebo with Eva Green; Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston (Netflix) and in The End We Start From with Jodie Comer; Shadow Force opposite Omar Sy and Kerry Washington and Atlas opposite Jennifer Lopez.

His other film credits include Todd Field’s Tar with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ 1917Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain; Cruella alongside Emma Stone; The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley; The Kingsman films with Taron Egerton and Colin Firth; Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman; Thomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Gary Oldman; Peter Weir’s The Way Back; John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard; Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood with Russell Crowe; Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law; Martin Campbell’s Green LanternThe Young Victoria opposite Emily Blunt; Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty; Danny Boyle’s Sunshine; Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana with George Clooney; Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist and Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love.

Lesley Manville

Lesley
Manville

JOCASTA

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Lesley
Manville

JOCASTA

Lesley Manville is a multi awarding winning stage, film and television actress.

Her recent theatre has included Ghosts (Almeida, West End and BAM New York) for which she won a Best Actress Olivier Award and Critics Circle Award. She also received Best Actress Olivier nominations for Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bristol Old Vic, Wyndhams, BAM New York and LA) and Grief (National Theatre). Other recent theatre includes The Visit at the National Theatre and Talking Heads at The Bridge.

Her early career was dominated by work at the Royal Court Theatre working on new plays including Top Girls, Serious Money, Rita, Sue and Bob Too and Borderline as well as classics such as Three Sisters, The Pope’s Wedding and Saved. For the RSC, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, As You Like It, The Philistines and The Wives Excuse. For the National Theatre, His Dark Materials, Pillars of the Community, Her Naked Skin and The Alchemist. For The Old Vic, All About My Mother and Six Degrees of Separation. In the West End, The Cherry Orchard and Some Girls.

Lesley received an Academy Award Best Supporting Actress and BAFTA nomination for her role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Phantom Thread. She played the title role in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. Most notably on ANOTHER YEAR for which she won the prestigious NBR Best Actress Award, The Critics Circle Award and also received BAFTA and BIFA nominations. Other films with Mike Leigh are All or Nothing (Critics Circle Best Actress Award), Topsy-Turvy, Mr. Turner, High Hopes, Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake and Grown Ups. Other films include Back to Black, The Critic, Ordinary Love, Let Him Go, Misbehaviour, and Maleficent 1 & 2. Films still to be released include Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Cold Storage, Winter of the Crow, Midwinter Break and Mr. Burton.

Lesley’s extensive television career has seen her work on many highly acclaimed and awarding winning shows. For her role as Princess Margaret in the final 2 seasons of The Crown, Lesley has received a Primetime Emmy and BAFTA nomination. Sherwood won her a BAFTA Supporting Actress nomination as did River. She did 3 series of the BBC’s Mum which won her an RTS Comedy Performance Award and 2 BAFTA nominations. Other TV includes Citadel, Magpie Murders, I Am Maria, Harlots, Save Me Too, Talking Heads, World on Fire, North and South, Cranford and Other People’s Children and Bodily Harm, receiving RTS Best Actress nominations for both. TV to come includes Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer, Moonflower Murders, Citadel 2 and Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie.

Lesley was appointed an OBE in 2015 and promoted to CBE in 2021.

Robert
Icke

Writer and Director

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Robert
Icke

Writer and Director

Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and director, working in theatre and on screen. His recent productions include Judas, Children of Nora, and Oedipus at International Theater Amsterdam, where until 2023 he was Ibsen Artist in Residence. His adaptation of Animal Farm played an extensive national tour in 2022 and is slated for a London transfer. His monologue condensation of Enemy of the People starred Ann Dowd at Park Avenue Armory and was one of the first new pieces of theatre to play in New York post the shutdown. He is directing Ian McKellen in Player Kings at the Noël Coward Theatre, 1 April – 22 June 2024, previewing in Wimbledon and Manchester from March. In six years at the Almeida, five of his productions transferred to the West End, and four to New York. These included his adaptations of The Wild Duck, Mary Stuart (also West End and National tour), Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also West End; Schauspiel Stuttgart; Park Avenue Armory), and 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan, also Broadway; West End; national and international tours). As a director, his productions included Hamlet (also West End; Park Avenue Armory; and broadcast on BBC2); The Fever and Mr Burns. His final production at the Almeida was The Doctor, which played last summer at Park Avenue Armory, in the West End in 2022, and remains in repertoire at both the Burgtheater in Vienna and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, as well as in numerous new productions across the globe. His awards include two Evening Standard ‘Best Director’ Awards; the Critics’ Circle Award, the Kurt Hübner Award (for his debut production in Germany); and the Olivier Award for ‘Best Director’, of which he was the youngest ever winner. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Hildegard
Bechtler

Scenic Designer

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Hildegard
Bechtler

Scenic Designer
Hildegard Bechtler is an award-winning designer based in London and working internationally.  Work in theatre includes designs for the Almeida Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Donmar, on Broadway and extensively in the West End including Top Hat, Oresteia (both Olivier-nominated for best set design), Mary Stuart, Hamlet, Consent, Arcadia and The Crucible.   Credits for the National Theatre include Antony and Cleopatra, Hansard, After the Dance (Olivier Award) and Iphigenia at Aulis (Evening Standard Award nomination).  Credits for the Royal Court include: The Seagull, Krapp’s Last Tape, My Name Is Rachel Corrie.  Recent work includes: The Doctor, Hamlet/Oresteia and Enemy of the People at the Park Avenue Armory; Four Quartets in the West End; Judas, Nora and Oedipus for Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam, The Doctor in the West End, at the Burgtheater Vienna and at the Adelaide Festival and Iwanow at the Staatstheater Stuttgart.  Her many designs in opera and ballet include productions for English National Opera, La Scala Milan, Glyndebourne and the world premieres of The Cellist for the Royal Ballet and Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel at the Salzburger Festspiele, the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House. She won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House. Upcoming work includes a world premiere for Zurich Ballet; and Dr Strangelove in the West End.

Wojciech
Dziedzic

Costume Designer

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Wojciech
Dziedzic

Costume Designer
Wojciech Dziedzic is a costume designer for opera, theatre and musicals. He studied fashion design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, institutions in which he later taught. Credits include: Simon Boccanegra (New National Theatre Tokyo & Finish National Opera Helsinki); Boris Godunov (New National Theatre Tokyo & Polish National Opera); The Hours (The Royal Theatre Copenhagen) Il ritorno d’Ulisee in Patria, Apocalypse Arabe (Festival D’Aix); From The Life of The MarionettesHomecoming, The MaidsMary Stuart, Danton’s Death, Nora, Angels in America, And Never We’ll Be Parted, The Wood, Cries and Whispers, The MiserAll my Sons , The Laws , The Hours (International Theatre Amsterdam); The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep Amsterdam and The Belasco Theatre Broadway); The Crucible (The Walter Kerr Theatre Broadway); Cries and Whispers (BAM); Les Indes Galantes (Opéra national de Paris); Aus Licht, Der Zwerg, Invasions/Explosions (Dutch National Opera); Tristan and Isolde, Penthesilea (La Monnaie Brussels); Cardillac (Polish National Opera); Mazeppa (Komische Oper Berlin); Eugene OneginIl Serpente di Bronzo and A Wintery Spring (Oper Frankfurt); Boris Godunovthe Conquest of MexicoBomarzoLohengrinEl PúblicoBrokeback Mountain (Teatro Real Madrid); Acis and Galatea (Concertgebouw Amsterdam); Requiem for the Nature (Holland Festival); Anatomy of a Suicide, Phaedra in Flames (Berliner Ensemble); Die Blume von Hawaii (Theater Magdeburg); Keine Stille außer der des Windes (Nationaltheater Mannheim); Robin Hood (Lyric Opera Bari); Acis and Galatea (Concertgebouw Amsterdam); NoraA Sort of HadesBlindenessPhaedraCraveCaligula (Theater Utrecht); Fidelio (Erl Festival). With Robert Icke: Oedipus, Judus, Children of Nora (International Theatre Amsterdam), Ivanow (Theatre Stuttgart), The Crucible (Theatre Basel).

Natasha
Chivers

Lighting Designer

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Natasha
Chivers

Lighting Designer
Natasha’s awards and nominations includes: Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play, and nominated for an Olivier and Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for Prima Facie. She won the Olivier Award for best lighting for Sunday in the Park with George. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for 1984 and for an Olivier Award for Oresteia. Her extensive work in theatre includes: The Hills of California (West End); Prima Facie (Harold Pinter Theatre/ Broadway); SYLVIA, The American Clock (Old Vic); Peaky Blinders (Rambert); Doctor, Hamlet, Oresteia (Almeida/ West End/ Park Avenue Armory); Enemy of People (Park Avenue Armory, New York); Judas (Internationaal Theater, Amsterdam) Mates in Chelsea, Shoe Lady, White Pearl, The Cane, Bad Roads, Mistress Contract, Fireworks (Royal Court); Ivanov (Staatstheater, Stuttgart); ; Kan Ya Ma Kan (Riyadh); Message in a Bottle, Electric Hotel, Gravity Fatigue (Sadler’s Wells); Drive and Live: La Bohème (ENO); The 1984 (Playhouse Theatre/ Broadway); The Antipodes, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, Statement of Regret (National Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea, The Chalk Garden, The House They Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre); We Are Here (La Mama, New York); Allelujah! (Bridge Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (RSC); Belleville (Donmar); Electric Counterpoint, Strapless (Royal Ballet); Green Snake (National Theatre of China); Macbeth (Broadway); Sunday in the Park with George (Wyndham’s).

Tom
Gibbons

Sound Designer

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Tom
Gibbons

Sound Designer
Recent work includes Coriolanus (National Theatre), Passing Strange (Young Vic), Opening Night, Long Day’s Journey into Night (West End), Dear England (National Theatre, West End); Jesus Christ Superstar (DeLaMar Theatre, Amsterdam); The Enormous Crocodile (Regent’s Park, Leeds Playhouse), Here We Are (The Shed, New York); Dead Man Walking (The Metropolitan Opera); Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre, Young Vic); Grey House (Lyceum Theatre, Broadway); Good (West End); HamletOresteia, The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory, Almeida Theatre, West End); Animal Farm (UK tour); West Side StoryWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway); Cabaret (Göteborg Opera); JudasOedipusThe Doctor (International Theatre Amsterdam); The AntipodesHome, I’m DarlingPeople, Places and Things (Winner for Best Sound Design, Olivier Awards 2016), Hedda GablerSunset At The Villa ThaliaThe Red Barn (National Theatre/West End); All About Eve (West End); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The DoctorWild Duck (Almeida/West End); Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Mr Burns1984 (Almeida/West End/Broadway); Fanny and AlexanderThe Lorax (Old Vic); A View From the Bridge (Young Vic/West End/Broadway); Obsession (International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican); Life of GalileoHappy DaysA Season in the CongoDisco Pigs (Young Vic); Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Moderate SopranoElephants (Hampstead Theatre); White DevilAs You Like It (RSC); TranslationsPlenty (Sheffield Crucible); After Life, The Absence of WarRomeo & Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicite); Venus in Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Henry IVJulius Caesar (Donmar, St Ann’s Brooklyn); The End of HistoryPah LaThe WoodsLove Love Love, (Royal Court).

Tal
Yarden

Video Designer

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Tal
Yarden

Video Designer
TAL YARDEN (Projection Design) – LONDON: Get Up, Stand Up, Anna X, My Brilliant Friend, Hamlet, Antigone, The Damned, Kings of War, The Fountainhead, Roman Tragedies, Lazarus BROADWAY: Indecent, Network, The Waverly Gallery, Sunday in the Park with George, The Crucible; OFF-BROADWAY & REGIONAL: Becky Nurse of Salem, Grey Rock, King Lear, Distracted, Liberty City, The Misanthrope; A Walk on the Moon, Ocean Filibuster, Passing Strange, Frost/Nixon; OPERA:  Exterminating Angel, Between Worlds, Mahagonny, Salome, Brokeback Mountain, Macbeth. VIDEO: Pat McGrath, Rick Owens, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, James Brown, Patti Smith; AWARDS: Molière, Lucille Lortel, NOMINATIONS: Tony, Drama Desk, Hewes, Outer Critic.