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-awardwinning work.
Includes:
Oresteia: 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.
Uncle Vanya: Chekhov's late masterpiece examines human behaviour in
all of its beautiful, terrible, laughable contradiction.
Mary Stuart: Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes
of British history's famous rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen
of Scots.
The Wild Duck: 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.
The Doctor: 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.