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Dateline: 11th September, 2007
The RSC in 2008 The Royal Shakespare Company has today confirmed that David Tennant and Patrick Stewart will appear as Hamlet and Claudius repectively in Hamlet, which will be cross-cast with Love’s Labour’s Lost and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Chief Associate Director, Gregory Doran, will direct the ensemble. Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost are new productions and A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be a revival of his 2005 production. A second ensemble will perform The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew. Tim Carroll, in his RSC debut, directs Merchant and Conall Morrison Shrew. Public Understudy Runs are also back in the RSC schedule. They will be for The Merchant of Venice and Love’s Labour’s Lost. The Merchant and Shrew ensemble will rehearse two new pieces of work which will premiere in London, completing the programme of five new plays in 2008:
These will join the other three new plays already announced:
Michael Boyd brings his Histories Ensemble to London to perform all 264 roles in the eight play History cycle. The plays open at the Roundhouse in April 2008. Further casting and repertoire details will be available later this year. Michael Boyd said, "2008 will see the future shape of the RSC begin to emerge. The Histories Ensemble is proving that the imaginative power which grows among a group of actors working together for an extended period can be something special. These actors have confirmed my faith in the Ensemble principle, which is at the heart of my ambitions for the RSC. I’m delighted that we can follow the Complete Works Festival in such sure-footed fashion with our eight play History cycle.
"In 2008 we will have three companies of actors all embracing the creative security which Ensemble offers whilst taking risks with the courage it fosters. These companies will pursue deeper artistic enquiry into Shakespeare and sharpen their wits on the high-wire challenge of new work. It’s one of our important strengths that we can allow actors the time and space to develop, learn and experiment.
"We want to give writers this same opportunity and 2008 signals a renewed commitment to contemporary dramatists. We are moving forward from short festivals of new work towards full runs of major new plays.
"In Stratford, the transformation of our theatres is well underway and still on course for completion in 2010. The Courtyard Theatre is now our main home until the RST and the Swan reopen. It’s a great space for Shakespeare, and it’s already much loved.
"I am confident that people will find this an exciting season. It celebrates and reaffirms the way in which we want to work, and the kind of spaces we want to work in." >> Listings
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