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Dateline: 10th January, 2012
New RSC Touring and Education Partnership From April 2012, the RSC begins a new touring and education partnership with five regional theatres: Hull Truck Theatre Company, Newcastle Theatre Royal, York Theatre Royal, Hall for Cornwall and Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. The partnership will build on the success of the RSC’s Learning and Performance Network (LPN), which currently has nearly 400 schools in areas of social and economic disadvantage, teaching Shakespeare in active ways which inspire young people. The partner theatres will use the successful ‘hub school and cluster’ model to run three-year programmes with schools in Hull, Middlesbrough, York, Cornwall and Southampton, offering training, development and performance opportunities for artists, students and teachers, supported by RSC practitioners. It will also allow the RSC to take its work right into the heart of communities, into both schools and local theatres. Building on the success of recent Young People’s Shakespeare tours of Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors, a new RSC YPS production of King Lear will tour all five locations this autumn (dates to be announced). Adapted and directed by Tim Crouch, this latest 70-minute production will be an introduction to Shakespeare for students who are least likely to access this work. As previously announced, this production will also play in New York in a collaboration with Park Avenue Armory. The RSC has been creating these edited versions of Shakespeare’s plays for young audiences aged 8 and upwards since 2008, as a way of transforming student experiences of Shakespeare. Headline activities for the programme include:
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