Romeo & Juliet

'A sharp new spin on a familiar tale... What if Shakespeare's infamous star-cross'd lovers didn't die, but instead lived happily ever after? Icke's production is crammed with tantalising sliding-doors moments... elegantly piercing... liberates the plot from romantic cliché. It emerges as a story steeped in regret and existential doubt – rueful, yearning and infinitely more relatable'

* The Stage *

'Intelligent and heart-wrenching... a production full of closely observed detail, that refuses to take any element of the heady story for granted'

* WhatsOnStage *

'Brilliant... Icke's production has a near metaphysical preoccupation with the vagaries of time that lends this most callow of stories a rare gravitas... he repeatedly alerts the audience to the plot's fateful reliance on chance... a richly rewarding evening, with the final scene – so often played as a ghastly melodrama – bringing the theme of different lives hovering just out of reach full circle'

* Telegraph *

'Powerful... Rarely has the brutal speed of the play's events, and its juxtaposition of sudden violence and bombshell love, seemed as clear as it does in Icke's staging... so clearly shows a deep understanding of Shakespearean text... dazzling'

* London Standard *

'Icke has brought new life to British theatre... He wakes audiences up to the rhythm of a plot... Here, he shakes up Shakespeare, bringing a fresh sense of urgency and instability to the play as it topples into high romance and tumbles into tragedy'

* Observer *

'Something special... Robert Icke is a man who thinks more deeply about the meaning of classic texts than half of their authors probably did'

* Time Out *

'Icke is in a league of his own... This is definitely not your traditional Romeo and Juliet... It's clever and original, making this an utterly thrilling vision... slick, focused, and profoundly sincere'

* Broadway World *

'Outlandishly joyful... a richly emotional, brilliantly intelligent take on a classic – one that'll plunge a knife into your heart so skilfully that you hardly notice the pain'

* Independe