Education
He completed theatrical training at Rose Bruford College and has been a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company since 1976.
He completed theatrical training at Rose Bruford College and has been a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company since 1976.
Hicks has practised the Brazilian hybrid of martial arts and dance capoeira, as well as the Japanese dance-theatre form butoh. He has said that he started to explore the physicality associated with these disciplines in a masked production of Oresteia (1981), directed by his mentor at the National Theatre, Peter Hall.