On election night, an incumbent party’s leader awaits a widely predicted landslide. As the last precincts report, long-buried secrets emerge, forcing him—and the nation—to confront questions of power, accountability, and fate in a present-day reframing of Sophocles’ tragedy.
The production arrives from London under director Robert Icke (Olivier Award-winning 1984; The Doctor). The principal roles are taken by Mark Strong (Olivier Award winner for A View from the Bridge; Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Lesley Manville (Academy Award nominee for Phantom Thread; Olivier Award winner for Long Day’s Journey Into Night), with design collaborators transferring intact from the original staging.