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Dateline: 30th September, 2009
The RSC in 2010 The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced its programme for 2010. There will be four new productions in Stratford, playing from February to September, as well as two productions for young people:
The two young people's productions will be The Comedy of Errors, in association with Told by an Idiot, directed by Paul Hunter, and a a new cut-down Hamlet, directed by Tarell Alvin McCraney. The "long ensemble" will continue and their current productions will return to the repertoire in July. Also announced is Dominic Cooke’s adaptation of Arabian Nights which will be the RSC’s first family show in The Courtyard Theatre in Stratford, playing over Christmas and during January 2010. The company then goes to London in December 2010 for a ten week season in the ‘Roundyard’, a specially constructed thrust stage auditorium inisde the Roundhouse. The repertoire will be drawn from the ensemble’s work in Stratford and will be accompanied by a major programme for young people, jointly devised by the RSC and the Roundhouse. Play titles will be announced next year. David Greig’s Dunsinane, a vision of one man’s desire to restore peace in a country ravaged by war, directed by Roxana Silbert, and Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep, directed by Maria Aberg, which focuses on the life of a CEO whose global business fragments around him, will both premiere at Hampstead Theatre in spring 2010. "In the meantime,", Michael Boyd said, "Gregory Doran will bring our Twelfth Night company to London this winter and we will premiere two ambitious plays from leading playwrights, Dennis Kelly and David Greig. In all, we will see 28 weeks of RSC shows playing in London, over the next 18 months, even while we open the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Last year there were two contenders for the London theatrical event of the year and they were both RSC shows. We look forward to an even stronger presence in the capital once our capital programme in Stratford is completed." The company will move back to the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres in 2011. Vikki Heywood, Executive Director, said, "Our Transforming our Theatres project in Stratford-upon-Avon remains on time and budget and we are now starting to plan our return to our new home. We will begin a preview programme of events and activities in late 2010 as we move back into the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres, leading to full performances in February 2011. Our long ensemble, fresh from the Roundhouse, will perform the first shows on the RST stage." Michael Boyd, Artistic Director, said, "The recession has hit everyone in the UK, including theatres and the RSC: fundraising, for instance, is suddenly much harder and if we were over dependent on it we would be in difficulty. The one thing that has, if anything, got stronger in hard times is the appetite of audiences for good theatre. The sociable act of gathering in the same space to share an imaginative journey, through real time, with performers and other audience members is proving more attractive than ever. Perhaps people are seeking the authenticity of an art form which works with the full human presence, at a time when so many voices in politics and the media seem inauthentic and dehumanised. Or perhaps they are seeking a sense of community in an increasingly atomised culture.
"Audiences are feeling a growing sense of community with our second long ensemble, as the actors grow in their roles and expand their personal repertoire. This company will shortly be playing our largest Newcastle residency for many years, including a world premiere in that city. London audiences will see the fruits of more than two years’ work in major seasons of Shakespeare and contemporary work in 2010 and 2011."
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