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Mark Strong and Lesley Manville make ancient tragedy ' Oedipus ' a political thriller.
Director Robert Icke's adaptation fuses the primal power of the ancient tragedy with a modern-day thriller.
The production, which runs until Jan. 4 , has drawn positive-to-glowing reviews.
Strong: "I heard gasping, I heard laughter, and I could hear a pin drop".
The play has a new resonance in the age of ancestral DNA tests, when anyone can submit a saliva sample and learn about their origins. “Everybody wants to know where their place is in the world and who they are,” Strong said. “Maybe I’m a Viking. Who knows?” It can be risky sometimes people learn things about their origins that transform their sense of self. Although, Strong reflected, “if Oedipus had the ability to do that, it could have solved a lot of problems.”.
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