On my radar: Robert Icke’s cultural highlights

The writer and theatre director on OJ Simpson, Monet’s garden and the perfect ChopinWriter 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;