Robert Icke

Writer/Director

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  • OEDIPUS

    Sophocles

    ITA, London, NYC

    oedipus

    OEDIPUS Sophocles

    a new adaptation created by
    Robert Icke


    Studio 54, Broadway: (2025)
    Wyndham's, West End: (2024)
    Edinburgh International Festival: (2019)
    Internationaal Theater Amsterdam: (2018)

    ‘We’re in a very vivid theatrical era - partly because it’s an Icke era.’

    Susannah Clapp


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    ¤ WON: Best Revival, Best Actress
    Olivier Awards 2025

    ¤ WON:
    Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director
    Critics Circle Awards 2025

    ¤ Selected for the
    Dutch Theatre Festival

    oedipus

  • HAMLET

    Shakespeare

    London, NYC

    Hamlet

    HAMLET Shakespeare


    Park Avenue Armory: (2022)
    BBC2: (2018)
    West End: (2017)
    Almeida: (2017)

    ‘Robert Icke is one of the most important forces in today's theatre.’

    Susannah Clapp, Observer


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    Hamlet

  • ORESTEIA

    Aeschylus

    London, Stuttgart, NYC

    Oresteia

    ORESTEIA Aeschylus

    a new adaptation
    created by Robert Icke


    Park Avenue Armory: (2022)
    West End: (2015)
    Almeida: (2015)
    Schauspiel Stuttgart: (2018)

    ‘You can almost see the dust flying off the old master. One tremendous evening.’

    Susannah Clapp, Observer




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    ¤ WON: Kurt-Hübner-Regiepreis
    Germany Academy of Arts, 2018

    ¤ WON: Best Director
    Olivier Awards 2016

    ¤ WON: Best Director
    Evening Standard Awards 2015

    ¤ WON: Best Director
    Critics Circle Awards 2015

  • ABOUT ROBERT

    biography, CV, interviews

    ABOUT ROBERT


    Born in Stockton-on-Tees, Robert is an award-winning writer and director.

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    Representation


    Rachel Taylor (Theatre) &
    Anthony Mestriner (Screen)

    at Casarotto.

    John MacGregor
    George Lane
    Brian Siberell
    Chris Smith
    Jon Cassir

    at CAA.


    Buy Works One


    published 2020
    contains Oresteia,
    Uncle Vanya, Mary Stuart,
    The Wild Duck and The Doctor.

    Buy it here.


    Interviews


    FT, Apr 2025 →

    The Stage, Apr 2024 →

    Telegraph, Nov 2022 →

    New Yorker, June 2022 →

    Economist, November 2018 →

    New Statesman, June 2017 →

    Sunday Times, March 2017 →

    Guardian, Feb 2016 →

    FT, Jan 2016 →

    Standard, Dec 2015 →

    Observer, August 2015 →

  • MARY STUART

    Schiller

    London

    Mary Stuart

    MARY STUART Schiller

    a new adaptation
    created by Robert Icke

    Duke of York's Theatre, West End (2018)
    Almeida Theatre (2016)

    ‘There were moments [during the proceedings] when I caught myself wondering when I last took a conscious breath.’

    Paul Taylor, The Independent

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    Doctor

  • THE DOCTOR

    new, after Schnitzler

    London, Amsterdam, Vienna, NYC

    The Doctor

    THE DOCTOR

    by Robert Icke
    adapted from Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi


    Park Avenue Armory (2023)
    Duke of York's Theatre, West End (2022)
    Burgtheater, Vienna (2022)
    Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam (2021)
    Adelaide Festival (2020)
    Almeida Theatre (2019)











    ‘Juliet Stevenson triumphs in this
    play from Britain's best director'

    Fiona Mountford, Telegraph



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    ¤ WON: Best Director
    Evening Standard Awards 2019

    The Doctor

  • UNCLE VANYA

    Chekhov

    London

    Uncle Vanya

    UNCLE VANYA Anton Chekhov

    a new adaptation
    created by Robert Icke

    Almeida Theatre (2016)

    ‘Never has a production been more carefully considered, more heartbreaking, more expressive’

    Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday

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    Uncle Vanya

  • 1984

    by George Orwell

    tour, West End, Broadway

    1984

    1984 by George Orwell

    a new adaptation created by
    Robert Icke & Duncan Macmillan


    Hudson Theater, Broadway: (2017)
    West End: (2016, 2015, 2014)
    International Tour (2016, 2015)
    National Tours (2014, 2013)
    Almeida: Feb-April(2014)

    ‘A stunning play... a chilling,
    relentlessly ingenious 101 minutes’

    Dominic Maxwell, Times


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    ¤ WON: Best Director
    UK Theatre Awards 2014

    ¤ NOMINATED: Best New Play
    Olivier Awards 2014

    ¤ WON: Best Director
    Liverpool Post Awards 2013

    1984

  • PLAYER KINGS

    Shakespeare's Henry IV, pts 1&2

    National Tour / West End

    Player Kings

    PLAYER KINGS Shakespeare

    a compression of Henry IV, pts 1 and 2

    West End / National Tour (2024)

    ‘If this isn't great acting, I don't know what is.’

    Dominic Maxwell, Sunday Times

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    Player Kings

  • THE WILD DUCK

    Ibsen

    London

    The Wild Duck

    THE WILD DUCK after Ibsen

    a new adaptation
    created by Robert Icke

    Almeida Theatre (2018)


    ‘There is no-one else like [Robert Icke] working in British theatre today. The Wild Duck simply asserts that further.’

    Fergus Morgan, WhatsOnStage



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    ¤ WON: Best Director
    Evening Standard Awards 2019

    The Wild Duck

  • MANHUNT

    by Robert Icke

    Royal Court Theatre

    Manhunt

    MANHUNT by Robert Icke


    Royal Court Theatre (2025)

    ‘An intense, terrifying 95 minutes... stunning’

    Georgina Brown, Daily Mail

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  • MR BURNS

    a new play by Anne Washburn

    London

    Mr Burns

    MR BURNS by Anne Washburn

    Almeida Theatre (2015)

    ‘The most exciting and most imaginative show of the year’

    Michael Coveney

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    Mr Burns