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Mother of all messes as two Oedipus productions announced in London

Robert Icke Indira Varma Rami Malek Wyndham Jocasta Lesley Manville The Old Vic Helen Mirren Mark Strong Sophocles
Hans Kesting as Oedipus and Marieke Heebink as Jocaste
Robert Icke’s Oedipus ran at the Edinburgh festival after debuting in Amsterdam in 2019 – with Hans Kesting as Oedipus and Marieke Heebink as Jocaste – and had been set for the West End in 2020. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The Old Vic has found itself in the mother of all messes after announcing a star-studded adaptation of Oedipus just 30 minutes after another major production was confirmed.

At 7.02pm on Thursday, the Old Vic announced that Rami Malek and Indira Varma were to star in an adaptation of Sophocles’s tragedy in 2025.

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