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Dateline: 26th April, 2005
RSC Winter 2005/6 Season The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Winter Season in Stratford-upon-Avon begins in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s new version of the classic tale Great Expectations. This new adaptation of Dickens’ dark, cruel and least sentimental love story concerning the adventures of the orphaned Pip will, says the company, reclaim the story for a contemporary audience and continue the Company’s tradition of classic works of literature re-imagined for the stage.
RSC Associate Director Gregory Doran heads up a two-part staging of all 23 of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the Swan Theatre. The collection of bawdy, comic stories, adapted by Mike Poulton, will be divided into two self contained, independent parts, and will be the first stage adaptations of Chaucer ever seen at the RSC. Greg will be joined by two other directors to present the stories in different styles, mirroring the many narrative voices employed by Chaucer himself.
RSC Associate Director Laurence Boswell returns to the Swan Theatre to direct the first production of Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women to be seen in Stratford for nearly 30 years. Penelope Wilton plays Livia. The last RSC production of the play was in 1969, directed by Terry Hands.
RSC Associate Director Dominic Cooke directs Arthur Miller’s renowned play about the witch hunts of the 1600’s The Crucible on the main stage. This will be the very first RSC production of this play in Stratford (the 1984 production toured nationally but never performed in an RSC theatre).
Commenting on the winter season, RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd said, "Just before we present the first ever Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, it makes sense, even for the RSC, that our winter season this year contains no Shakespeare.
"We know Shakespeare drew inspiration from Chaucer, so it's appropriate that in the run up to the Complete Works Festival we explore the roots of our theatrical history.
"The Company has a great track record in bringing classic literary texts to the stage and our new versions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dickens' Great Expectations continue this. It's also great to be bringing Declan Donnellan and Nick Omerod, one of the UK's most distinctive creative teams, back to the RSC.
"Arthur Miller is one of a handful of 20th century dramatists to match Shakespeare's deep humanity and his political and spiritual range. It's as a tribute to Miller that we're presenting The Crucible; a timely revival for a play about democracy and moral leadership.
"And in the Swan we continue our exploration of work by Shakespeare's contemporaries with one of the best-known plays of the period, Middleton's Women Beware Women." The Fine Detail
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