Oedipus w/Mark Strong & Lesley Manville - Wyndham’s

... praise is due because this is the English language premiere of a stunning production that, in its original Dutch-language version, was seen at the Edinburgh International Festival, and for those of us lucky enough to catch it, it was a blinding theatrical experience that remains seared on the retina.

I reckon we can all be really confident that the casting of Strong (last seen on stage at the NT in Icke’s production of The Red Barn, and before that playing another great flawed tragic character, Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge) and Manville (so ticklishly fab as Princess Margaret in The Crown) is not going to destabilise Icke’s razor-sharp and contemporary version of Sophocles, which received a full deck of five-star reviews in Edinburgh in 2019.