#Me Too Oedipus
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Apr 2025 | Documentary Theatre, Dramaturgy, Review, United Kingdom
Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what Royal Court...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Oct 2024 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Directing, New York, Review, United States of America
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke’s Oresteia, which tries to...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 19th Jul 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 19th May 2022 | Adaptation, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom
Ivo van Hove’s production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 5th Dec 2021 | Interview, Japan, Transcultural Collaborations
After its premiere at north London’s Almeida Theatre in 2019, Robert Icke’s The Doctor earned...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 5th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
“Crystal clear.” The adjective, repeated like a mantra in Robert Icke’s The Doctor, is charged...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
After six years, associate director Robert Icke bids farewell to the Almeida Theatre. In this...
Read MorePosted by Sigríður Jónsdóttir | 29th Sep 2017 | Adaptation, Iceland, Theatre and Politics
“If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.”...
Read MorePosted by Robert Hassan | 14th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Melbourne, Review
The blurb for Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s stage adaption of George Orwell’s 1984 for the...
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