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"OEDIPUS": Icke, Strong, and Manville update Sophocles for a modern political tragedy. by Ron Fassler

Icke, Strong, and Manville update Sophocles for a modern political tragedy. In 1959, Elmer Rice wrote Cue for Passion, a Broadway play that adapted Shakespeare's Hamlet into contemporary terms, emphasizing the Oedipal complex of its central character, Tony Burgess. Now, British wunderkind Robert Icke (Oresteia, 1984) has "created," as the program says, a widely admired"but, for this reviewer, somewhat [�…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45PM on November 17, 2025

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