Exclusive: British award-winning writer and director Robert Icke has signed with CAA.
Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production and adaptation of Oresteia, making him the youngest person to ever win the award. He also won the Evening Standard Best Director Award for the production, and three years later again won that award for his productions of The Wild Duck and his adaptation of The Doctor.
Icke directed Hamlet, starring client Andrew Scott, at the Almeida and on the West End in 2017 and at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2022.
He is set to direct Sir Ian McKellen this spring in the West End’s Player Kings, Icke’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. McKellen will play Falstaff.
Icke also is set to direct a production of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, in...
Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production and adaptation of Oresteia, making him the youngest person to ever win the award. He also won the Evening Standard Best Director Award for the production, and three years later again won that award for his productions of The Wild Duck and his adaptation of The Doctor.
Icke directed Hamlet, starring client Andrew Scott, at the Almeida and on the West End in 2017 and at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2022.
He is set to direct Sir Ian McKellen this spring in the West End’s Player Kings, Icke’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. McKellen will play Falstaff.
Icke also is set to direct a production of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, in...
- 1/30/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“High Noon,” the classic Hollywood Western starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, is getting the Broadway treatment in 2023.
Oscar-winner Eric Roth will pen the stage adaptation. Michael Arden, who earned Tony nominations for his work on Deaf West’s “Spring Awakening” and “Once on This Island” will direct.
The 1952 film starred Cooper as a town marshal who rises to the occasion to face down a gang of deadly killers at noon. Directed by Fred Zinneman and produced by Stanley Kramer, the film received seven Academy Award nominations, winning four. In 1989, the Library of Congress added the film to the National Registry of Film for its cultural and historic significance.
The stage production will mark the first Western play to premiere on Broadway in more than 85 years, according to producers Paula Wagner and Hunter Arnold.
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“When...
Oscar-winner Eric Roth will pen the stage adaptation. Michael Arden, who earned Tony nominations for his work on Deaf West’s “Spring Awakening” and “Once on This Island” will direct.
The 1952 film starred Cooper as a town marshal who rises to the occasion to face down a gang of deadly killers at noon. Directed by Fred Zinneman and produced by Stanley Kramer, the film received seven Academy Award nominations, winning four. In 1989, the Library of Congress added the film to the National Registry of Film for its cultural and historic significance.
The stage production will mark the first Western play to premiere on Broadway in more than 85 years, according to producers Paula Wagner and Hunter Arnold.
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‘The Kite Runner’ Broadway Review: Khaled Hosseini’s Bestseller Fails to Take Flight
“When...
- 7/27/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Editing is older than motion pictures. The ordering and pacing of dialogues, scenes, entrances and exits to build conflict and resolution have long defined Western theater, from Aeschylus’s Oresteia to Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung [Der Ring Des Nibelungen]. It was the insertion of first-person thoughts into dialogue and plot that modernized 18th- and 19th-century novels and clever sequencing of mechanically animated magic lantern glass slides that thrilled Victorian audiences to popular epics like Ben-Hur.
- 11/19/2012
- by David Leitner
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Cbldf has joined forces with the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression to write a letter in defense of Alan Moore’s Neocomicon (Avatar Press), which has recently been challenged in the Greenville, South Carolina, public library system. Objections to Neonomicon were raised by a patron after her teenage daughter checked out the book, which contains adult themes. The book was correctly shelved in the adult section of the library, and the teenager possessed a library card that allowed access to the adult section.
Cbldf joined Ncac and Abffe in sending the following letter to the Library Board of Trustees at the Greenville County Public Library:
Dear Board Members,
On behalf of the National Coalition Against Censorship, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund we strongly urge you to keep Alan Moore’s Neonomicon in the Greenville Public Library.
Cbldf joined Ncac and Abffe in sending the following letter to the Library Board of Trustees at the Greenville County Public Library:
Dear Board Members,
On behalf of the National Coalition Against Censorship, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund we strongly urge you to keep Alan Moore’s Neonomicon in the Greenville Public Library.
- 6/24/2012
- by Betsy Gomez
- Comicmix.com
One thing I like to imagine is what it would be like if the Greek writers of yore found themselves penning TV shows for a modern, internet-savvy audience. During religious holidays and stuff, Greeks would sit through a trilogy of tragedies for a whole entire day, heroes getting maimed and stuffed into bathtubs, jealous girlfriends poisoning future fiances until they fell over dead, mothers stabbing sons, sons sleeping with mothers, gods smiting people willy-nilly just for giggles. I think of Aeschylus checking his @replies on Twitter, waiting for the internet to praise him for the brilliance of Oresteia only to be bombarded with angry, threatening tweets about, "Cassandra was my favorite, you loathsome cockroach!"
Stories work backwards a lot of times these days, TV writers starting with an ending that will make fans happy and backing into it from point C to point B to point A. But it hasn't always been like that.
Stories work backwards a lot of times these days, TV writers starting with an ending that will make fans happy and backing into it from point C to point B to point A. But it hasn't always been like that.
- 2/1/2012
- by Heather Hogan
- AfterEllen.com
Werner Herzog has teamed up with David Lynch to make a film about a disturbed actor who kills his own mother with a sword. Jeremy Kay sits in on the final day of filming
Werner Herzog's output has swung perilously close to mainstream of late. His 2006 Vietnam war action film Rescue Dawn was mostly well-received, while his Bad Lieutenant was released last month to widespread admiration. Has the famously idiosyncratic German director gone straight? Not a chance. His latest movie, which screens at the Edinburgh international film festival this week, sees him back on the fringes of artistic expression.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done has baffled many Us critics, but bewitched others, who have declared it a nightmarish gem. Based loosely on the true story of Mark Yavorsky, a San Diego actor who in 1979 killed his mother using a sword from a production of The Oresteia...
Werner Herzog's output has swung perilously close to mainstream of late. His 2006 Vietnam war action film Rescue Dawn was mostly well-received, while his Bad Lieutenant was released last month to widespread admiration. Has the famously idiosyncratic German director gone straight? Not a chance. His latest movie, which screens at the Edinburgh international film festival this week, sees him back on the fringes of artistic expression.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done has baffled many Us critics, but bewitched others, who have declared it a nightmarish gem. Based loosely on the true story of Mark Yavorsky, a San Diego actor who in 1979 killed his mother using a sword from a production of The Oresteia...
- 6/22/2010
- by Jeremy Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
I am writing this review not to make a full review, but rather to show what things (in my opinion) should be in a proper review of this film. Until anything like that happens (universally these film critics seem to be fairly unprofessional in what they are doing) I want to point out what critics really should be talking about. (Warning! This “review” contains spoilers!)
Let’s talk about the story. This is what Cameron gets mostly picked on. In short: this is a story about a looser called Jake Sully. Not a looser in the American Idol sense, but a looser big time. A little bit like Oedipus. What speaks for his favour is the fact that he is clever like Oedipus (Oidipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx, Jake was cunning enough to fly the big dragon, which helped both these men gain perhaps not so wise respect...
Let’s talk about the story. This is what Cameron gets mostly picked on. In short: this is a story about a looser called Jake Sully. Not a looser in the American Idol sense, but a looser big time. A little bit like Oedipus. What speaks for his favour is the fact that he is clever like Oedipus (Oidipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx, Jake was cunning enough to fly the big dragon, which helped both these men gain perhaps not so wise respect...
- 12/28/2009
- MoviesOnline.ca
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