Robert Icke: Works One

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Robert Icke: Works One

Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; The Wild Duck; The Doctor

Theatre studies Plays, playscripts

Author: Robert Icke

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Collection: Oberon Modern Playwrights

Language: English

Published by: Oberon Books

Published on: 5th November 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 616 pages

ISBN: 9781786829085


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.

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.

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