Critic’s Pick: "Is it electrifying? God, yes. The results are slick, sleek, mordant. It’s a spine tingler, if not quite the ethics tangler of the original."
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"This new adaptation is less about what will happen or how, and without that thrust, Icke's Oedipus struggles to find its meaning."
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"Icke’s Oedipus is continuously engaging and smart... but where it runs up against a wall... is in trying to make the story function without gods and fates... I have never seen an Oedipus that truly wrecks."
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"Manville and Strong crackle together — their chemistry is steamy and genuine and, in some of the production’s best moments, after all terrible secrets have been revealed, so is their body-wracking devastation."
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"I thought what might follow would be Mr. Icke’s most provocative—and logical and interesting—departure from Sophocles, an ending of a more ambiguous and less gruesome kind. "
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"Manville, in a blistering and deeply complicated performance, certainly keeps one guessing, until the truth overwhelms her and the audience."
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"The ingenuity and precision he delivers with “Oedipus” promise more wild journeys ahead."
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"Most of the play takes place in real time in Oedipus’ sleek living room. And Icke puts a pulse-pounding clock onstage that counts down to the election results. But we all know it’s leading up to much more than that."
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