Behind each nice man is a good girl.
Election evening. The polls predict a landslide victory. All the things is about to alter.
Starring the internationally famend, multi award-winning Mark Sturdy and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is reworked into an important, explosive human thriller.
After his revelatory Oresteia, visionary director Robert Icke (1984, The Physician) reimagines one other Historical Greek tragedy, bringing the secrets and techniques of the previous bursting into the current.
Following hit runs at Worldwide Theatre Amsterdam and the Edinburgh Pageant, Oedipus involves involves Wyndham’s Theatre for a strictly restricted season from 4 October.
Multi-award-winning actor Mark Sturdy returns to the stage. He beforehand appeared in A View from the Bridge (Younger Vic, West Finish and Broadway – Olivier Award for Finest Actor in a Play and Tony Award nomination); The Purple Barn, Nearer, Dying of a Salesman, Murmuring Judges, Fuente Ovejuna, Napoli Milionaria, King Lear and Richard III (Nationwide Theatre); Twelfth Night time and Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse – Olivier Award nomination for Finest Supporting Actor); Pace the Plow (New Ambassadors Theatre); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre); The Thickness of Pores and skin and The Remedy (Royal Court docket Theatre); Hess is Lifeless, The Plantagenets and The Man Who Got here To Dinner (RSC).
Lesley Manville’s notable tv credit embrace Princess Margaret in award-winning drama, The Crown, for Netflix, BBC’s drama Sherwood (for which she acquired a Finest Supporting Actress nomination on the 2023 BAFTAs), which is returning for a second collection. Mum (RTS Finest Feminine Comedy Efficiency and two BAFTA nominations for Finest Feminine Efficiency in a Comedy), Magpie Murders for BBC and PBS, equally set to return for a second collection titled Moonflower Murders. Lesley can at present be seen in Citadel for Prime Video alongside Richard Madden and Stanley Tucci. Upcoming roles embrace Alfonso Cuaron’s thriller collection, Disclaimer. Lesley’s additional TV credit embrace I Am Maria for BBC, River (BAFTA nomination for Finest Supporting Actress), Save Me Too, Speaking Heads, World On Hearth and Harlots.
