Oedipus

'Electric... riveting from beginning to end... Icke has done an astonishing job... An old play is masterfully analysed and made newly devastating'

* Guardian *

'Stunning... Icke brilliantly remakes Sophocles' profoundly disturbing tragedy for our times'

* Financial Times *

'Wrenchingly tense... Icke invokes a sense of the past in a vivid contemporary milieu... an extraordinary evening... this show is mother****in' good'

* Evening Standard *

'Riveting... a slew of smart ironies, with the mother of all twists... tragedy at its best'

* Sunday Times *

'Lethal but compassionate... defiantly humane... a singularity of purpose that distils a famously lurid story into something empathetic, lucid and quite, quite devastating'

* Time Out *

'Stunning… razor-sharp and contemporary… a blinding theatrical experience that remains seared on the retina'

-- Lyn Gardner * Stagedoor *

'Electric... there will surely not be a more powerful production in the UK this year... a play for today'

* Observer *

'Devastating... Icke ratchets up enough tension to cause gasps... he knows exactly how to create a realistic, involving drama while allowing the prefiguring dramatic irony of the language to foreshadow events. The result is as gripping as a thriller, yet weighted with the terrible sense of what might have been... a modern reminder of the power of Greek tragedy to lay bare all the grief of the human soul'

* WhatsOnStage *

'Stylish and shattering... Icke's reworking is bold and affecting... The piece has a cumulative power that builds gradually until the atmosphere is riveting, suffocating and unbearably tense'

* The Stage *

'A tantalisingly fresh take on the Greek tragedy... Icke's brilliant reimagining achieves the monumental feat of taking a Greek drama where (almost) everyone thinks they know what's going to happen, and turning it into an exercise in tension, one that etches its message with the painful efficiency of a tattoo gun... he makes it impossible to look away, even for a moment'

* Independent *

'Startling... Icke's profound connection with the Greeks is once again made gloriously evident'

* iNews *

'A devastating, seamless update of Sophocles... achieves a level of catharsis rare for any production of an ancient text'

* New Statesman *

'Glorious... a delectably tragic and exquisitely horrifying piece of theatre... a devastating success'

* Broadway World *

'Not just an adaptation but a radical reworking that is really a gripping new play... a dark story about real people, not a myth from the distant past'

* British Theatre Gui