Theater review

OEDIPUS

2 hours, no intermission. At Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St.

Old “Oedipus” wouldn’t seem an ideal candidate for modernization.

It’s hard to imagine the jaw-dropping fate of the legendary Theban king befalling any politician today. And even if his sticky situation were to somehow happen to an average Joe, it would go down as the greatest episode of “Maury” ever.

But British writer-director Robert Icke has wrestled Sophocles into 2025, breathtakingly so, with his starkly intense revival from London starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong that opened Thursday night at Studio 54 on Broadway.

It works. It just works.

Although Oedipus is poised to become prime minister of the UK on the eve of an election in Icke’s telling, contemporary parallels to global politics aboun

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