A mild-mannered professor takes on a new pupil, and swiftly descends into tyranny, becoming bent on her destruction.
A comically surreal expose about power, knowledge and those who hoard both.
Following on from the success of Hamlet and Macbeth, the highly acclaimed Icarus Theatre Collective presents a bold and exciting new production of Shakespeare’s most tragic tale – Romeo & Juliet.
In defiance of their entire society and in secrecy from their closest friends, hopeful young lives burn amidst a cataclysmic backdrop of impending war. Sun and moon shine down on star-crossed lovers as a Jewish girl falls for a member of Nazi Youth and the boy questions everything he was taught to believe.
They hide their passion and sexuality from their warring families and their closest friends. Misadventure, family pride, and anti-semetism abort and bury the most joyous of beginnings, the most hopeful of love stories as Romeo and Juliet, driven apart, find their world becoming a constricting, single mausoleum of fate and death.
Running time: approx 2 hours 30 minutes, including interval.
Emmy Award winning writer Nic Young re-joins Tim Hardy, faculty at RADA who has worked with The Royal Shakespeare Company, in the West End, and starred in major European tours.
New York's wittiest cabaret act - 'How to Be a Bad Girl' chronicles this former classical pianist's delightful descent into the world of smut, booze and burlesque.
This slick production is perfect for audiences new to Macbeth and those already well acquainted with Shakespeare’s tragedies.
Icarus honours Lovecraft's seminal tale as his Dyer leads us through his discoveries in the Antarctic ice, we question his reliability, his sanity, and then at last even our own place in the order of things.
A company of seasoned classical actors embrace the brutality of the greatest play ever written. A gripping, ensemble style brings exhilaration and violence to the unforgettable music and delicacy of the words.
Icarus brings you one of the earliest challenges to modern patriarchy, a brazen precursor to feminism and gender equality. Recession and economic boom sit side by side in Hedda’s world, antiquated by patriarchal society and made vibrant by Hedda’s lust for life.
Tackling subjects of racism, belonging, and deception, this is a classic take on a poignant tragedy that mercilessly explores every inch of the human condition.
Following on from the success of Macbeth, the highly acclaimed Icarus Theatre Collective presents a bold and exciting new production of Shakespeare’s most tragic tale – Romeo & Juliet.
A powerful production of this haunting classic play about the terrors of becoming an adult.
This slick production is perfect for audiences new to Macbeth and those already well acquainted with Shakespeare’s tragedies.
Do I murder the king now or wait for proof?Are women constant and worthy or flippant and unfaithful? Is life worth living? To be or not to be…
The year is 1786. George III is King. King of England. He has a loving wife; a nation of subjects, a loyal parliament, and the world kneels at his feet.And all is not as it seems.
1918. The rat infested trenches of the Somme. A group of officers prepares for an imminent German attack in a classic story of war and humanity.
Mena Town isn't ready for a seventeen year old cross dressing Debbie Harry, but D doesn't give a shit, he's going to be who he wants to be and no one's getting in his way.
Tackling subjects of racism, belonging, and deception, this is a classic take on a poignant tragedy that mercilessly explores every inch of the human condition.
Winner of the 2003 Olivier Award for best new play, this great show wrenches home the destructive qualities of both love and art and the sacrifices made by those who create it.
First Revival of Pulitzer Prize winning American/Armenian play since the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1983
Relationships are like going on a very long train journey. You have to keep on going till the end; you can't just jump out of the carriage when things get a bit bumpy..
'perhaps merely quiet' defines the betrayal, sacrifice, and helping hands women lend each other to walk a fine line of self within a web of mental illness.
Winner of the Pearson Playwright Award, Pick of the week from ‘The Stage, Aleks Sierz Rogues and Vagabonds & Newsline
Critics choice by Time Out,Robert Shore. Play of the week by The Church of England Newsletter
Our company's inaugural production, this was the first version of The Lesson which we later completely re-made and toured internationally.
