Where Icke’s was all sleekness and surgical precision, this one, co-directed by Matthew Warchus and choreographer Hofesh ...

As with buses, so with productions of Oedipus – you wait for ages for one to come along and then two arrive almost simultaneously. Writer/director Robert Icke set the bar teeteringly high last autumn ...

This overcooked, jarring production is the latest iteration of West End star casting and the craze has surely reached a nadir ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma star in a London production that uses dance brilliantly but lacks emotional connection ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of light, unable to escape his destiny. A blackout and d ...

You’ll have to go along and see them, then. What is it? Still the brightest directorial talent of his generation, many of Robert Icke’s ‘adaptations’ are effectively new plays, but this ...

Sudden blackouts blind the audience, but set design is the most interesting thing about this unbalanced production of the ...

It’s always celebrity month in London theatre to some degree, but there’s no denying that February 2025 is bringing the A-listers: Jonathan Bailey, Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, Hayley Atwell, Rami ...

HOLO-LAB: Searching. Searching… Found. An explorer who went to the South Pole, Robert Falcon Scott. FATIMA: Hi, Mr Scott, I’m Fatima. OLLIE: And I’m Ollie. ROBERT SCOTT: How do you do ...