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Dateline: 1st December, 2011
Ravenhill Joins RSC Playwright Mark Ravenhill, best known for his controversial plays such as Shopping and Fucking and Mother Clap’s Molly House, is to join the RSC in January 2012 on a twelve month contract as the Company’s Writer in Residence. The residency has been made possible by a grant from the Columbia Foundation. RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd said, “Mark is deservedly one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, who will bring a great questioning spirit and a fresh theatrical intelligence to the company. I can't wait to work with him and see his two commissioned works that we have planned as part of his time with the RSC." RSC Company Dramaturg Jeanie O’Hare added, “Mark will be with the company at the perfect moment. He will be embedded with us throughout the year of the World Shakespeare Festival, writing a new play alongside the acting ensemble and placing the voice of a playwright at the heart of the company.” In the last year as part of the RSC 50th birthday season, Ravenhill has already been building relationships within the company, working with an ensemble of actors to curate a weekend of his favourite plays from the RSC back catalogue in rehearsed readings of Poppy by Peter Nichols and Fashion by Doug Lucie. He also hosted a public event discussing and exploring the RSC’s history of presenting new work. He said of his new role, “I will be living in Stratford for much of the year and really hope to become part of the company. I'm also looking forward to working with the RSC ensemble. “Working on Shakespeare encourages actors to tell epic stories and to embrace a muscularity in their approach to language. This is a fantastic resource for a living writer to work with. It is exciting and daunting to have the opportunity to write an epic play, which the RSC is uniquely positioned to allow me to do.”
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