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Dateline:
23rd November, 2010
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| The
auditorium of the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Photo by Peter
Cook. |
RSC: First New Productions in Transformed
Theatres
The Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres reopen tomorrow on time and
on budget following a three and a half year £112.8m transformation.
From the opening until3rd April 2011 there will be a preview period,
which invites people in to explore and help test the building with events,
exhibitions and activities, leading to full performances by long ensemble
from current repertoire.
In February, the first productions on the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre
stage will be King Lear
and Romeo and Juliet,
directed by RSC Associate Directors, David Farr and Rupert Goold. The
company will also perform Artistic Director Michael Boyd’s production
of Antony and Cleopatra
in the Swan Theatre and both Young People’s Shakespeare productions
of Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors.
From 14th April to 5th November the RSC celebrates its 50th birthday
season with two companies of actors playing across both theatres:
In the Royal Shakespeare Theatre:
Macbeth, directed by Michael Boyd, RSC Artistic Director
The Merchant of Venice, directed by Rupert Goold, RSC Associate
Director
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Nancy Meckler
Marat/Sade The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed
by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of
the Marquis de Sade by Peter Weiss, English version by Geoffrey
Skelton, verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell, directed by Anthony
Neilson, RSC Literary Associate
In the Swan Theatre:
Cardenio, Shakespeare’s ‘lost play’ re-imagined,
directed by Gregory Doran, RSC Chief Associate Director
The City Madam, by Philip Massinger, directed by Dominic
Hill
Dunsinane, by David Greig, directed by Roxana Silbert, RSC
Associate Director, presented by the National Theatre of Scotland
in association with the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
The Homecoming, by Harold Pinter, directed by David Farr,
RSC Associate Director
Young People’s Shakespeare production of The Taming of the
Shrew, edited and directed by Tim Crouch
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