Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville return to the London stage in director Robert Icke’s adaptation, “Oedipus,” ...
Robert Icke is to make his Royal Court debut with the world premiere of Manhunt in the London theatre’s 24/25 season, which also features the revival of Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis ...
Robert Icke is to make his Royal Court debut with the world premiere of a play about Raoul Moat in the London theatre’s 24/25 season, which also features the revival of Sarah Kane’s 4:48 ...
This was true when Sophocles first staged his play, based on well-known myths, in fifth century BC Athens; it is certainly true with this modern reimagining, written and directed by Robert Icke. As ...
With this in mind, it’s a neat touch for Robert Icke to open his adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus with his presumptive ruler presiding over something very like a Whitehall press event.
Robert Icke’s contemporary take on the tragedy is stylish and shattering The reframing of the story works well, even if some of the sharp contemporary symbolism has lost its edge since the ...
And then of course this means I love you now forever, just as long as you can stay inside this lemon egg of time your mouth ...
In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, a digital clock ticks down the seconds to zero. It’s a trick Icke ...
Hot on the heels of The Other Place, Alexander Zeldin’s new version of Antigone at the National Theatre, comes Robert Icke’s reworking of Oedipus Rex over the river in the West End.
In the smaller Upstairs Theatre, New Diorama regulars Kandinsky Theatre – aka Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman – make their Court debuts with intriguing ‘sci-fi gothic horror’ More Life (Feb 6-Mar 8 ...