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Dateline: 19th September, 2004
RSC New Work Festival Starts Rehearsals Actors, directors and writers are rehearsing in various spaces including Canada and New York for the Royal Shakespeare Society's first New Work Festival. More than 20 events will be held over three weeks. Audiences will be able to see new work "from the epic to the intimate". Festival director Dominic Cooke said,"For the first time in RSC history, we're opening the doors on the early stages of our work by giving audiences access to the genesis of possible future productions. It's an adventure that promises to put new work at the heart of the RSC." The season opens on September 29th in The Other Place with Poor Beck, Joanna Laurens' contemporary reworking of the story of Myrrha from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The cast includes Greg Hicks, Sian Brooke and Louis Hilyer. The Pilate Workshop, which explores the life of Pontius Pilate, will use the entire The Other Place for the production - offices, scene dock and rehearsal rooms as well as the auditorium. Toby Stephens, currently starring in Hamlet at the RSC, will play Jesus. Led by artistic director Michael Boyd, The Pilate Workshop will play in The Other Place. There will be only six performances. Michael Pennington has been cast to narrate Gregory Doran's new adaptation of Shakespeare's erotic narrative poem, Venus and Adonis. This will be held in the RST on October 10th. The audience will get a glimpse of specially created puppets which will be used for a full-scale production running at the Little Angel Puppet Theatre in Islington from October 14th to November 6th. A six-week run in The Other Place will follow. Rehearsals for a performance by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland about life before 9/11 are being held in Canada while 16 young artists are preparing in Harlem, New York for Big Voices - Words From Across the World which will be staged in the RST on October 17th. The final weekend starts with Big Ideas, a major symposium on new writing for the theatre. It will examine the relationship between new plays and big stages. Sessions will be chaired by working playwrights including David Edgar, Bryony Lavery, Moira Buffini and David Grieg. Director Nicholas Wright will give a keynote speech. The symposium will be held in the RST on Saturday, October 16th. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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