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Oedipus re-imagined as tense political thriller starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong – review

Writer and director Robert Icke returns to the West End with Oedipus – a well-known Greek tragedy, of course, but one that has been re-imagined as a tense, modern political thriller. We meet our titular protagonist (played by Mark Strong) on election night while he is awaiting the election results at campaign HQ; he is joined by his wife Jocasta (Lesley Manville), his family and their staff, as they wait to find out whether Oedipus has been elected leader. A timer ticks ominously down towards zero in the background throughout the play.
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film Equality testing Actor cover actress Ian McKellen Has Clapped Back at Critics. Now He’s Playing One.
In Anand Tucker’s new film “The Critic,” Ian McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, a closeted reviewer in 1930s Britain who covers theater with equal measures of wit and acid. “Despite her crimes against the theater, she was sensationally gorgeous when drunk,” Jimmy writes of a young actress portrayed by Gemma Arterton. Naturally, McKellen luxuriates in such lines.
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