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Theatre Access ACCESS MATTERS Welcome to our Winter 2017 Access Matters, where you can find out about our access provision and our forthcoming assisted performances. Old stories are so often the ones we return to again and again to make sense of the world around us. As our Rome collection of plays continues into autumn, we see how Shakespeare, his contemporaries and modern writers also seek inspiration in history and myth to fuel stories that still resonate in 2017. Rome Season Director, Angus Jackson, returns to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with the last of Shakespeare’s Roman plays, Coriolanus. Sope Dirisu – a rising talent who originally emerged through our very own Open Stages programme – is an exciting Coriolanus. Another new voice emerges in the Swan Theatre: Kimberley Sykes, Associate Director on our Dream 16 tour makes her RSC directorial debut with Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy, Dido, Queen of Carthage. Our Swan Theatre season continues with a new adaptation of Robert Harris’ epic Cicero trilogy by Mike Poulton (Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies). This thrilling political saga tells the story of the rise Communications Design by RSC Visual and fall of the great Roman orator, Cicero. Ovid was Shakespeare’s favourite poet and references to these classical stories litter his plays. We have lost our cultural familiarity with many of these and I feel passionate about reigniting our understanding of these wonderful fables. Over three weeks, eight events will explore Ovid’s stories from many angles. New voices resound around The Other Place once again with two Mischief Festivals. The first, in May, sees the return to the RSC of writer Tom Morton-Smith (Oppenheimer, 2015) and the co-writing debut of Matt Hartley and Kirsty Housley with a double bill of provocative short plays. We round off 2017 with two Royal Shakespeare Theatre productions which are proof of our claim to be theatre at its best. One of our greatest living writers, David Edgar, reasserts the social conscience of the ultimate story of redemption: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (Half A Sixpence, 2016). Meanwhile, Christopher Luscombe (Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, 2014 & 2016) brings his dazzling energy to Twelfth Night. It’s the perfect end to your year. Gregory Doran Artistic Director The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by THE GATSBY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION and THE KOVNER FOUNDATION The work of the RSC Literary Department is generously supported by THE DRUE HEINZ TRUST www.rsc.org.uk/access 01789 403436 September 2017 – February 2018 Stratford-upon-Avon Coriolanus William Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Theatre 15 September – 14 October 2017 A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of the republic of Rome. Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless soldier but a reluctant leader. His ambitious mother attempts to carve him a path to political power, but he struggles to change his nature and do what is required to achieve greatness. www.javiermarin.com.mx In this new city state struggling to find WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE its feet, where the gap between rich and poor is widening every day, Coriolanus must decide who he really is and where Sculpture by Javier Marín his allegiances lie. Audio Described Performances Rome Season Director, Angus Jackson, Wednesday 4 October, 7.15pm completes our collection of Shakespeare’s Touch Tour, 5pm Roman plays with a visceral production Saturday 14 October, 1.15pm Touch Tour, 11am which sees Sope Dirisu (One Night in Miami, Donmar Warehouse, 2016) take Captioned Performance Friday 13 October, 7.15pm CAP on the title role. 2 www.rsc.org.uk/assisted-performances Twelfth Night William Shakespeare WILLIAM Royal Shakespeare Theatre SHAKESPEARE 2 November 2017 – 24 February 2018 ‘I am all the daughters of my father’s house, And all the brothers too.’ Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Twins are separated in a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting image of his twin sister... Christopher James Tissot The Letter 1876-1878, design by RSC Visual Communications The Letter 1876-1878, design by RSC Visual Tissot James Luscombe, director of the ‘glorious’ Audio Described Performances (Daily Telegraph) Love’s Labour’s Lost Friday 26 January, 7.15pm and Much Ado About Nothing (2014 & Touch Tour, 5pm 2016), returns to tackle Shakespeare’s Saturday 24 February, 1.15pm greatest comedy, a brilliantly Touch Tour, 11am bittersweet account of ‘the whirligig Captioned Performances of time’. Friday 19 January, 7.15pm CAP Twelfth Night is generously supported by the Thursday 15 February, 1.15pm Twelfth Night Syndicate 01789 403436 3 September 2017 – February 2018 Stratford-upon-Avon A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens A new adaptation by David Edgar Royal Shakespeare Theatre 27 November 2017 - 4 February 2018 A brand new adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic – one of the most loved short stories ever written. In one ghostly Christmas night, cold-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge learns to pity himself and to love his neighbour – CHARLES DICKENS but is that enough? A NEW ADAPTATION BY DAVID EDGAR A festive tale of redemption and compassion. David Edgar is one of our greatest living writers. His rich history with the RSC stretches from Destiny Communications Design by RSC Visual Audio Described Performances in 1976 through the multi-award- Friday 12 January, 7.15pm winning adaptation of Dickens’ Nicholas Touch Tour, 5pm Nickleby, to Written on the Heart Sunday 4 February, 2pm (2011). Now he returns to Dickens to Touch Tour, 11.45am rediscover the social conscience of this Captioned Performances timeless tale. Rachel Kavanaugh (Alice Thursday 4 January, 1.15pm CAP in Wonderland, 2001; The Merry Wives Wednesday 24 January, 7.15pm of Windsor, 2003) directs, fresh from Semi-integrated BSL stunning the West End with her award- interpreted performance winning production of Half A Sixpence. Wednesday 17 January, 7.15pm Suitable for ages 7 and over. Relaxed Performance Thursday 1 February, 1.15pm 4 www.rsc.org.uk/assisted-performances Dido, Queen of Carthage Christopher Marlowe Swan Theatre 15 September - 28 October 2017 Aeneas is a refugee in exile, fleeing a war-torn Troy and seeking new roots in Europe. Shipwrecked in Carthage, the meddling gods intervene; they fill Queen Dido with all-consuming love for Aeneas. In Marlowe’s unsettling tale of sacrifice, the lovers must decide whether to follow their hearts or fulfil their political destinies. Dido, overwhelmed with passion, is propelled to her terrifying final act. Director Kimberley Sykes (Associate Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sculpture: Paige Bradley. Photo: Anne Vinogradoff Photo: Sculpture: Paige Bradley. tour, 2016) delves into Marlowe’s Audio Described Performances darkly humorous politics of identity and Saturday 7 October, 1.30pm happiness, creating an urgent world Touch Tour, 11.15am where gods meet man, East meets Thursday 26 October, 7.30pm West, sea meets land and fate hangs Touch Tour, 5.15pm by an unforgiving thread. Captioned Peformance Friday 20 October, 7.30pm CAP Semi-integrated BSL interpreted performance Tuesday 17 October, 7.30pm with interpreted post show talk back 01789 403436 5 September 2017 – February 2018 Stratford-upon-Avon Imperium: The Cicero Plays Based on the Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris Adapted by Mike Poulton Swan Theatre 16 November 2017 – 10 February 2018 Following his stunning RSC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (2013/14) Mike Poulton turns his pen to the thrilling world of Ancient Rome with a brand new version of Robert Harris’ best-selling Cicero novels. This epic event will be staged as six plays, presented in two performances, each with two intervals, and will be directed by RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran. THE CICERO PLAYS BASED ON THE CICERO TRILOGY BY ROBERT HARRIS ADAPTED BY MIKE POULTON Design by RSC Visual Communications Design by RSC Visual 6 www.rsc.org.uk/assisted-performances Part I: Conspirator Part II: Dictator Cicero is elected consul by a unanimous Cicero has retired from politics. vote of the Roman people. Catiline, Julius Caesar – dictator, and his aristocratic rival, is furious in defeat commander of Rome’s armies – is and refuses to accept the results of the assassinated. Cicero sees his death as election. He swears a blood oath to an opportunity to restore the Republic destroy Cicero, murder the government, but the assassins, Brutus and Cassius, and take Rome by force. Behind the dither as power in Rome begins to fall conspiracy, Cicero suspects, lurks into the lap of Mark Antony. Julius Caesar – young, ruthless, popular Determined to prevent Antony imposing with the Roman mob and greedy for a military dictatorship on Rome, Cicero absolute power. forms an unlikely alliance with the As law and order begins to break down, 19-year-old great-nephew and heir of who controls the mob controls Rome: Julius Caesar. Confident that he can Cicero, Catiline, Caesar or the charming control the boy and use him to destroy but vicious playboy, Publius Clodius? Mark Antony, Cicero sets out to save the Republic. Audio Described Performances Audio Described Performances Tuesday 16 January, 7pm Wednesday 17 January, 1pm Touch Tour, 4.45pm Touch Tour, 10.45am Saturday 10 February, 1pm Saturday 10 February, 7pm Touch Tour, 10.45am Touch Tour, 4.45pm Captioned Performances Captioned Performances Wednesday 10 January, 1pm CAP Wednesday 10 January, 7pm CAP Monday 29 January, 7pm Tuesdsay 6 February, 7pm The Wondrous Imagination of Ovid the Storyteller 8 – 28 October 2017 We celebrate the wonderful tales of one of Shakespeare’s greatest inspirations with eight events across three weeks, from storytelling to readings from RSC Actors.
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