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Oresteia (Paperback)
Aeschylus; Adapted by Robert Icke
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R350
Discovery Miles 3 500
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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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. Following Mr
Burns and 1984, Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke radically
reimagines Oresteia for the modern stage, in its first major London
production in more than a decade. Lia Williams returns to the
Almeida as Klytemnestra.
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1984 (Paperback)
George Orwell; Adapted by Robert Icke, Duncan Macmillan
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R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and
falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to
Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have
become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be our
reality. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in
a radical new adaptation exploring why Orwell's vision of the
future is as relevant as ever.
First, do no harm. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees
what it is and many have reason to undermine it? Very freely
adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke's
gripping moral thriller uses the lens of medical ethics to examine
urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality.
After a critically acclaimed run at London's Almeida Theatre, The
Doctor transferred to the West End in September 2022. This revised
and updated edition was published to coincide with the new
production.
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Hamlet (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Adapted by Robert Icke
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R354
Discovery Miles 3 540
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A murdered King. A usurped Prince. A promise of revenge. Returning
to court to find his father murdered and his mother married to the
murderer, Hamlet faces a terrible dilemma. This is Shakespeare's
great tragedy of passion, corruption and revenge. Rob Icke's
acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous play originally
ran at London's Almeida Theatre before transferring to the West
End. This revised and updated edition was published to coincide
with the run at New York's Park Armory in summer 2022.
Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution.
Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of British
history's famous rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of
Scots. Written in verse and based on historical sources, Schiller's
play imagines the queens' lives - one in court, the other in prison
- surrounded by staff and servants. Their imagined meeting, before
Mary's execution, is passionate and enthralling. Robert Icke's lean
version condenses the action, cutting the cast to twelve, whilst
retaining the play's symmetrical structure and tense atmosphere. In
an exciting twist, the first production had two actors learn the
roles of both queens, and their roles were decided at each
performance by the toss of a coin. Adding a further duality to the
play, this also allowed the first word of the evening to anticipate
its ending:'Heads'.
Chekhov's late masterpiece examines human behaviour in all of its
beautiful, terrible, laughable contradiction. Following his
reimagining of Oresteia (Almeida / West End), Almeida Associate
Director Robert Icke directs a new production of Chekhov's greatest
play. Things your life could be: (1) a farce. (2) a tragedy. (3)
pointless. (4) all of the above. Things you could do about it: (1)
keep living. (2) stop living. (3) stop someone else living. (4)
nothing. Even so, what has your life been worth?
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