New collaborators – The RSC and Ohio State University

Published: 11 November 2012
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

Julius Caesar to visit the US (UK tour - Cyril Nri and Paterson Joseph pictured) Credit: Kwame Lestrade

A further three-year collaborative enterprise starts between the RSC and The Ohio State University.

It has two principal strands: teaching and study, and performance and co–production.

The innovative teaching of Shakespeare at secondary school level both in the UK and the US is set to expand and the programme supports the OSU’s plans to be a centre for teaching, research and performance of Shakespeare. There will also be opportunities for RSC actors’ and artists’ residencies at the University.

On the production side the RSC will be able to take more work over to the US and the programme of co–productions with American creatives will continue. This will include the RSC’s Young People’s Shakespeare productions for audiences aged 8 and upwards. The YPS King Lear has recently had a two-week residency at Ohio State having played earlier in New York.

Julius Caesar will be the first production to be taken to the US under the auspices of the renewed collaboration. Directed by RSC artistic director, Gregory Doran and set in contemporary Africa, the production will open at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater in April and then play the Southern Theatre, Columbus, Ohio in May. Julius Caesar has recently been on a tour in the UK and moved on to Moscow.

Further projects are to be announced shortly.

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