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Dateline: 15th February, 2011

RSC, Open Air and Apollo Downloads

Digital Theatre has announced As You Like It, their second collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company; the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods, and the sell out West End production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons as their next three downloadable productions which will also be available to stream from £6.99 at www.digitaltheatre.com.

As You Like It is now available and will be followed shortly by Into The Woods and All My Sons. (These links are to the BTG reviews of the orginal productions)

The cast for As You Like It is Charles Aitken as Oliver, David Carr as Charles the Wrestler, Dyfan Dwyfor as William, Christine Entwisle as Phoebe, Geoffrey Freshwater as Adam/Corin, Mariah Gale as Celia, James Howard as First Lord, Ansu Kabia as Le Beau, Richard Katz as Touchstone, Debbie Korley as Hisperia, Forbes Masson as Jaques, Sandy Neilson as Duke Frederick, Jonjo O’Neill as Orlando, Dharmesh Patel as Lord Amiens, Peter Peverley as Jacques Du Boys/Dennis, Sophie Russell as Audrey, Clarence Smith as Duke Ferdinand, Katy Stephens as Rosalind, James Traherne as Sir Oliver Martext and James Tucker as Silvius.

Into the Woods has received two Laurence Olivier Award nominations - Best Musical Revival and Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for Michael Xavier. The cast includes Helen Dallimore, Mark Hadfield as Baker, Jenna Russell, Beverly Rudd and Hannah Waddingham with Judi Dench as the voice of the Giant.

David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker lead the cast of All My Sons. Earlier this month it was announced that production has received two Laurence Olivier Award nominations - Best Revival and Best Actor for David Suchet.

The rest of Digital Theatre's catalogue is:

• English Touring Theatre’s Far From The Madding Crowd, an adaptation by Mark Healy from Thomas Hardy, directed by Kate Saxton with a cast including Rebecca O’Mara, Phil Cheadle and Stephen Billington.
• The Container, presented in association with The Young Vic and Amnesty International, highlighting the plight of illegal immigrants coming to the UK, written by Clare Bayley, directed by Tom Wright, designed by Naomi Dawson.
• Jez Butterworth's Laurence Oliver Award nominated Parlour Song, directed by Ian Rickson at the Almeida, with a cast comprising Amanda Drew, Andrew Lincoln and Toby Jones.
• Kathryn Hunter’s one woman show Kafka’s Monkey by Franz Kafka, in an adaptation by Colin Teevan, directed by Walter Meierjohann, which enjoyed a sell-out season at the Young Vic.
• Mark Ravenhill’s Over There, part of the Royal Court Theatre’s 2009 Off The Wall season, written by Mark Ravenhill and directed by Ravenhill and Ramin Gray, with a cast of twin brothers Harry Treadaway and Luke Treadaway.
• The Royal Shakespeare Company and Told by an Idiot’s The Comedy of Errors

Digital Theatre’s partner theatres are the Almeida Theatre Company, the Bush Theatre, English Touring Theatre, the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Exchange Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic.

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