Recommended age 16+
Performance dates
4 October 2024 - 4 January 2025
Run time: 2hr (no interval)
Includes interval
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Behind every great man is a great women.
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.
Following hit runs at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and the Edinburgh Festival, Oedipus comes to Wyndham’s Theatre for a strictly limited run.
Content
Scenes of a sexual nature, distressing content including graphic depictions of violence. The performance also contains a short blackoutSpecial notes
Everyone, regardless of age, must have their own ticket to enter the theatre. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by and sat next to a ticketholder who is at least 18 years old. Children under the age of 3 will not be admitted. You may not bring food or drink purchased elsewhere. The show will start promptly, and we are unable to admit latecomers. There is no readmittance to the auditorium once the performance has begun.
At the evening performance on Saturday 9 November, Tuesday 12 November and Saturday 16 November, the role of Jocasta will be played by Celia Nelson.
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