Oedipus
eBook - ePub

Oedipus

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Oedipus

About this book

'Time turns, sets a backward course, starts for the start with speed: the fragile moments drop unravelling, reversing, unwound, back to the beginning.'

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

Award-winning writer and director Robert Icke transforms Sophocles' epic tragedy into an essential and explosive political thriller.

First performed in Dutch in 2018 at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and the Edinburgh International Festival, this arresting version of Oedipus received its English-language premiere at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End in 2024, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, and starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. The production won Icke the Best Director Award at the 2025 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, as well as Best Actor and Best Actress for its leads, and transferred to Broadway in December 2025.

Robert Icke is one of the most visionary figures in theatre today, celebrated for his contemporary re-imaginings of classic texts by Shakespeare, Schiller, Chekhov, Aeschylus and Ibsen.

'Robert Icke is the great hope of British theatre' Time Out

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Information

Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781788508087
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
British Drama
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction by Robert Icke
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Production History
  7. A Note on the Text
  8. Characters
  9. Oedipus
  10. Afterword: ‘To Know the Self ’ by Professor Simon Goldhill
  11. About the Author
  12. Copyright and Performing Rights Information

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