Mark Armstrong and Lesley Manville to star in Robert Icke’s Oedipus
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are to star in Robert Icke’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedoipus at Wyndham’s Theatre.
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are to star in Robert Icke’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedoipus at Wyndham’s Theatre.
Ian McKellen is to play Falstaff in Robert Icke’s production of Player Kings adapted from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
Libby Purves reviews The Doctor very freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi by Robert Icke now playing at thew Almeida Theatre, London.
ON SALE AT 10AM TODAY (WEDNESDAY 5 APRIL) We are pleased to announce that following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Robert Icke’s new production Of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet starring Andrew Scott will transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre this Summer. Hamlet will be presented from 9 June – 2 September 2017. The production stars Olivier Award and BAFTA winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Birdland, Pride) as the renown Danish prince. Hamlet is bought to the stage by the critically acclaimed award-winning creative team behind Oresteia and 1984. BritishTheatre.com will have access to a priority access on sale period from 10am on Wednesday 5 April 2017. Read our review of Hamlet at the Almeida. BOOK NOW FOR HAMLET
Alas poor Sherlock, we know it well. Even in the opening scenes of this ingenious production, it was clear that Andrew Scott would more than match his TV co-star Cumberbatch.
This production brings out Schiller’s themes in a compelling and lucid way while also being an exciting political thriller and a very personal drama about two women trapped by forces greater than themselves.
This adaptation of 1984 is a modern masterpiece. Get your tickets now, before they take you to Room 101.
This is Oresteia, not The Oresteia, the trilogy of plays (Agamennon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) which won Aeschylus a prize in 458BC and which is considered the “original family drama” and the launching pad for all modern drama, but the free-wheeling, self-indulgent, filmic, and loose “adaptation” by Robert Icke which is now playing at the Almeida, kicking off Rupert Goold’s Greeks season. There are some wonderful images, some potent exchanges, some brilliant flashes of inspiration – but, overall, it does not hold together dramatically. For a production which lasts three hours and forty minutes, many many minutes are spent biding time.