He unleashed a fierce 1984 and brought Aeschylus bang up to date. Now the Almeida's wunderkind is stripping back a Russian classic with actor Paul RhysSay what you like about his productions, but Robert Icke has some nerve. His Romeo and Juliet, created for touring troupe Headlong in 2012, boldly gave the play the Sliding Doors treatment, full of rewinds and what-if scenes (in one version the Capulets and Montagues f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AM on February 12, 2016