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Robert Icke: Works One
Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; The Wild Duck; The Doctor
- 464 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.
Peter Brook, The Empty Space
Each partner strives to find in the other, or induces the other to become, the very embodiment of the other whose co-operation is required as a complement of the particular identity he feels compelled to sustain.
R.D. Laing, The Self and Others
Acknowledgements
My greatest debt is to the actors and creative team of the original production, whose ideas, instincts and input quite literally make the show, and to all of whom I am genuinely grateful.
This sort of work would scarcely be possible without the support and backing of its originating theatre – on multiple levels, I’m thankful to my whole team at the Almeida, who, five years in, are really my Almeida family – and on this one, as on so many before, I owe big thanks to Rupert Goold, Lucy Pattison, Denise Wood, Emma Pritchard, Rebecca Frecknall and Stephanie Bain.
And on top of that, thanks to everyone else who read the play or watched a performance and gave suggestions or support – significantly: Rachel Taylor, Helena Clark, Stephen Grosz, David Hare, Helen Lewis, Josh Higgott, Jon Sedmak, Laura Marling, Andrew Scott, Ben Naylor, Ilinca Radulian, Denzel Westley-Sanderson and Zara Tempest-Walters.
RI, October 2018
This adaptation was commissed by and originally produced at the Almeida, where it had its first performance on 15th October, 2018.
| Cast (in alphabetical order) | |
| Charles Woods | Nicholas Day |
| Hedwig Ekdal | Grace Doherty |
| Francis Ekdal | Nicholas Farrell |
| Anna Sowerby | Andrea Hall |
| Gregory Woods | Kevin Harvey |
| James Ekdal | Edward Hogg |
| Gina Ekdal | Lyndsey Marshal |
| Hedwig Ekdal | Clara Read |
| John Relling | Rick Warden |
| Creative Team | |
| Direction | Robert Icke |
| Design | Bunny Christie |
| Light | Elliot Griggs |
| Sound | Tom Gibbons |
| Casting | Julia Horan CDG |
| Costume Supervision | Claire Wardroper |
| Fight Direction | Kevin McCurdy |
| Assistant Direction | Denzel Westley-Sanderson |
| Design Assistant | Verity Sadler |
| Photography | Manuel Harlan |
| Company Stage Manager | Claire Sibley |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Adam Cox |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Beth Cotton |
Characters
GREGORY WOODS
CHARLES WOODS, father of GREGORY
GINA EKDAL
HEDWIG EKDAL, her daughter, nearly 13
JAMES EKDAL, husband of GINA
FRANCIS EKDAL, father of JAMES
ANNA SOWERBY
JOHN RELLING
A note on the text
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A comma on a separate line ( , ) indicates a pause, a rest, a silence, an upbeat or a lift. Length and intensity are context d...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Oresteia
- Uncle Vanya
- Mary Stuart
- The Wild Duck
- The Doctor
- eCopyright