Robert Icke

Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of his multi-award-winning work.<br/><br/>Includes: <br/><br/><i>Oresteia</i>: Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades a huge moving bloody saga Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written.<br/><br/><i>Uncle Vanya</i>: Chekhov's late masterpiece examines human behaviour in all of its beautiful terrible laughable contradiction.<br/><br/><i>Mary Stuart</i>: Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of British history's famous rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots.<br/><br/><i>The Wild Duck</i>: A new version of Ibsen's masterpiece about the nature of truth in which a stranger intervenes to reveal the lies in the past of a family with tragic consequences.<br/><br/><i>The Doctor</i>: Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler Robert Icke has written a gripping moral thriller that uses the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith belief and scientific rationality.