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Dateline: 26th May, 2004 RSC Newcastle Season Announced The 2004 RSC Newcastle Season, presented by the Theatre Royal, will see Michael Boyd's inaugural season transfer to the city from 1st to 27th November, prior to its London run. The Season, which goes on sale to the public on Wednesday 30th June, will also see the RSC return to the Heaton based People's Theatre with the Spanish Golden Age Season, following an absence of over fifteen years. Booking opens for all productions on Wednesday 30 June: tickets for all venues are available from the Theatre Royal Booking Office on 0870 905 5060. Artistic Director Michael Boyd is firmly re-committing the RSC to a dedicated rolling ensemble of actors at the heart of the Company. Audiences in Newcastle will get the opportunity to enjoy the work of this newly formed ensemble when they perform The Tragedies - Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, at the Theatre Royal. Following their run in London, after the Newcastle Season, actors from this year's Tragedies ensemble will form part of the acting company for 2005, providing a unique opportunity in the UK for the sustained development and training of actors.
The Company's first New Work Festival displays the renewal of the Company's commitment to the relationship between new work and Shakespeare. The Festival will provide a fresh platform in the UK for premieres of new plays, devised work, as well as experimental productions of Shakespeare's work on an annual basis. Some of the Festival will be performed at the Theatre Royal and Live Theatre, continuing the partnership between the RSC and the premiere Newcastle based new writing company. Peter Sarah, General Manager of the Theatre Royal said, "We look forward to presenting the RSC for the 2004 Newcastle Season - the 28th - and particularly seeing the new look company. We are pleased to be able to work with The People's Theatre again, after an absence of almost twenty years. The programme and repertoire looks like being a vintage season." The Tragedies at the Theatre Royal
Hamlet
Macbeth King Lear The Spanish Golden Age Season at the People's Theatre
RSC Associate Director Laurence Boswell leads an ensemble of 23 actors performing four neglected plays from the Spanish Golden Age at the People's Theatre. During the Season audiences will get the chance to see four new translations of plays from a huge canon of work. The Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega and translated by David Johnston, Tirso de Molina's Tamar's Revenge, translated by James Fenton, House of Desires, a play by one of the few female playwrights of the age, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz translated by Catherine Boyle and Miguel Cervantes' Pedro, The Great Pretender translated by Philip Osment. The New Work Festival at Live and the Theatre Royal As part of the RSC's first New Work Festival, members of the Tragedies ensemble will perform Midwinter at Live Theatre, a new play written and directed by the former RSC Writer In Residence, Zinnie Harris (2 - 6 November at 7.30pm). The world premiere of Tynan by Richard Nelson, with Colin Chambers, is an irreverent and indiscreet play based on the diaries of the infamous theatre critic and writer Kenneth Tynan. This one man show will be performed by Corin Redgrave on the Theatre Royal stage for two performances only. The production is designed by Tom Piper with costume design by Tynan's daughter Tracy (10 and 12 November at 3pm). Nowhere to Belong will be performed by political commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. It explores a life-long love of Shakespeare and details of how her own personal experience of playing Juliet as a teenager in Uganda sent shockwaves through her family and helped to shape the emotional and political landscape of her life. For one performance only (5 November at 9.30pm). Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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