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Dateline: 25th April, 2006

RSC Newcastle Season Announced

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced details of its 2006 season in Newcastle. It runs for four weeks, from Monday 30th October to Saturday 25th November, but instead of the usual eight plays in two venues, plus a new work at Live Theatre, there will be four productions, all Shakespeare, in two venues, the Theatre Royal and the newly rebuilt Northern Stage.

At Northern Stage the company will present Much Ado (opening 30th November) and King John (7th November), and the action then moves to the Theatre Royal for Romeo and Juliet (13th November) and The Tempest (21st November).

"All of the Season productions transfer directly from the RSC's Complete Works Festival, the biggest event in the Company's history," said RSC artistic director Michael Boyd." In a year when so much of our energy and focus is in Stratford for the Festival year, I'm delighted that we've been able to stage some of the Festival in Newcastle.

"This was always going to be an extraordinary year for the Company and I hope that some of our audiences in Newcastle will be able to join us at some point during the festival in Stratford-upon-Avon.

"We're very much looking forward to being back in the city."

Much Ado About Nothing stars Tamsin Greig as Beatrice and Joseph Millsom as Benedick with Patrick Robinson (possibly best known for playing Ash in BBC1's Casualty) as Don Pedro. Marianne Elliott (associate director at the Royal Court) makes her RSC directorial debut.

King John also stars Greig (Constance) and Millsom (the Bastard), and is directed by Josie Rourke (associate director of Sheffield Theatres) who directed last year's Believe What You Will. This will be only the fifth time that the RSC had produced the play since the company was founded in 1961.

Romeo and Juliet stars Rupert Evans (Breathing Corpses at the Royal Court and Sweet Panic at the Duke of York's) and Morven Christie (When You Cure Me at the Bush and Theatre and Festen in the West End), with Sorcha Cusack at the Nurse. It is directed by Shared Experience's Nancy Meckler who has directed House of Desires and The Comedy of Errors for the RSC.

The Tempest stars Patrick Stewart as Prospero and is directed by Rupert Goold.

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