By David Sheward November 19, 2025: The countdown clock in Hildegard Bechtler's sterile set for Robert Icke's explosively dramatic adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus was ticking down to the final minutes and I was having trouble breathing. Even though the shattering conclusion of incest and destruction is well known to the civilized world, Icke's modern version of the classic Greek tragedy is so perfectly paced and in…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:01AM on November 19, 2025