On my radar: Robert Icke’s cultural highlights

Writer and theatre director Robert Icke was born in Stockton-on-Tees and educated at the University of Cambridge. Since 2013, he has been associate director of the Almeida theatre in London, where his productions have included adaptations of the Oresteia (2015), for which he won best director at the 2016 Olivier awards, Uncle Vanya (2016) and Hamlet (2017). Icke will step down from the role later this year; his final production is The Doctor, an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi starring Juliet Stevenson, which will run until 28 September.