One of the most basic questions in the world is “Who are you?”.
Read full article: Friday Finds: Halloween candy deals & treat alternatives from Grocery Obsessed influencer1 hour agoSee the latest Insider Deals.How to get Microsoft Word, Excel, and more with no subscriptionActors Mark Strong and Lesley Manville , right, perform in the play Oedipus, in London in Oct. 2024. That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the cursed king Oedipus two and a half millennia ago.
Icke sets the action in a campaign headquarters on election night. Strong’s Oedipus is a charismatic outsider politician on the verge of a historic victory, while Manville is his wife and political partner Jocasta. Audience members may hear echoes of the Clintons, or French President Emmanuel Macron and his older spouse Brigitte. When Oedipus pledges to release his birth certificate to quell rumors about his origins, it evokes “birther” conspiracies about Barack Obama.
Icke, 37, is one of Britain’s hottest directors, acclaimed for reinvigorating the classics in productions including another ancient Greek tragedy, “Oresteia,” and the Shakespeare adaptation “Player Kings,” starringIcke first staged “Oedipus,” in Dutch, in Amsterdam in 2018.
The two actors have smoldering stage chemistry as a couple who are a formidable political force, and in touching family scenes that both leaven and deepen the horror to come, loving parents. “Everybody wants to know where their place is in the world and who they are,” Strong said. “Maybe I’m a Viking. Who knows?”
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