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Musical Theatre 12 #RCS MT What's On at RCS Feb - Jun 2017 rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice 0141 332 5057 2 rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice 0141 332 5057 What’s On at RCS rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Spring/Summer Season 8 art forms Ranked 6th in the world rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice for performing arts education 5 venues (QS World Rankings, 2016) 500+ performances a year Ranked No.1 for graduate employability in Scotland (Higher Education Statistics Agency 2016) 3 3 Core 0141 332 5057 0141 332 5057 What students learn • BA (Hons) Contemporary School of Music Our public performances are at RCS: Performance Practice – supported by students on our teaches students to create • Learning performance, BA Production Arts and Design art in order to better theory, applied music and BA Production Technology School of Dance, Drama, understand the world in studies, music education and Management programmes. Production and Screen which they live, developing and composition, our their skills as innovative musicians are encouraged Production students design and • BA Modern Ballet – and socially-engaged and nurtured to develop create the props, costumes, sets delivered in partnership cultural leaders, who wish their potential, both on and lighting, and ensure the with Scottish Ballet, to shape the future of new smooth running of everything on rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice their individual studies students learn work. and in orchestras and and off stage. They are the ones classical technique ensembles. who make our performances a and contemporary • BA and MA Musical truly visual, aural and sensory choreography in Theatre – led by Professor • Our exceptional departments feast for you, the audience. preparation for careers as Andrew Panton (Artistic include: Brass, Composition, professional dancers. Director of Dundee Rep Guitar and Harp, Jazz, Theatre), students are Keyboard, Strings, Timpani Accessible • BA Acting – one of the taught practical, high and Percussion, Traditional performances 4 4 most highly regarded level education across Music, Vocal Studies and acting programmes in the the disciplines of acting, Woodwind. Chess (p13) UK. Alumni include James singing, dance and music. BSL Wed 22 Mar / 7.30pm McAvoy, David Tennant, • Our Traditional Music Elaine C. Smith and • BA Performance in department offers the A Midsummer Night’s . British Sign Language Richard Madden UK’s only Bachelor of Dream (p9) and English – Music degree dedicated to CAP Fri 24 Mar / 2.30pm • MA Classical and the only programme of its traditional and folk music. – kind in the UK. It teaches Contemporary Text BSL = British Sign Language running the gamut deaf students to be both • Over the last twenty years, interpreted performance from Shakespeare and actors and creators of work. our Alexander Gibson Opera CAP = Captioned performance Renaissance classics to School has built an enviable new plays from some of reputation in preparing See p64 for more details, or the nation’s most exciting singers of the highest calibre rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice/access playwrights. for professional careers with some of the most renowned opera companies in the world. 0141 332 5057 0141 332 5057 Call the Box Office rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice 0141 332 5057 or book online rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Subscriptions Get the Royal treatment Book in advance for a whole series of See more of our fantastic performers – join one of our regular events and save 20%. our Royalty Card scheme and get discounted tickets, priority booking, discount on Hilary Rosin Coffee Concerts - p18 merchandise and Café Bar purchases as well See all 4 concerts for £32 (£24 concessions) as free entry to watch masterclasses and 5 5 competitions throughout the year. Fridays at One - p30 Core Visit rcs.ac.uk/royalty for more info See all 11 concerts for £88 (£66 concessions) Royalty 10 (10% off ticket price) Blue Mondays - p35 £10/yr (single), £17.50/yr (joint) See all 3 concerts for £20 (£15.50 concessions) Royalty 20 (20% off ticket price) Mondays at One - p33 £20/yr (single), £35/yr (joint) See all 11 concerts for £74.50 (£57 concessions) Royalty 30 (30% off ticket price) £30/yr (single), £52.50/yr (joint) 0141 332 5057 Priceless performances for £5 We have a special selection of seats available in the New Athenaeum Theatre and Stevenson Hall Tickets 26 which are only £5 all year round. These seats are If you are aged 26 or under, come and see limited, so please book early. any RCS show, in any seat, for just £5. (See p64 for more details) Visit rcs.ac.uk/tickets26 for more info. 0141 332 5057 In 2017, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will mark its 170th year of offering performance arts education in Celebrating Glasgow. We will be marking this significant birthday celebration throughout 2017 with a series of events and rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice 170 years of performances. In 1847, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland was first Performing Arts established in order “to provide mental cultivation, moral improvement and delightful recreation to all classes.” With the inaugural ‘soiree’ hosted by none other than Charles Education Dickens, the institution has always attracted the very best educators, innovators and performers. 6 Over the past 170 years the institution has developed and grown into a world-leading conservatoire. We are at the forefront of performing arts education, ranked 6th in the world*. Thousands of graduates have studied with us and progressed on to influence the arts and the communities they live in. Some of the special events to commemorate this birthday include our magnificent gala performance of Chess in March (p13), Die Fledermaus in May (p17) and our first symphony concert in partnership with Gleneagles, held at the City Halls in March (p25). We hope you can join us to celebrate this special year. *QS World Rankings, 2016 0141 332 5057 Piano + Dance Modern Ballet rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Fri 24 Feb / 8.30pm graduation performance A mesmerising collaboration Thu 8 Jun / 7.30pm between our Keyboard Fri 9 Jun / 7.30pm students, remarkable pianist Sat 10 Jun / 2.30pm & 7.30pm Anto Pett and the brilliant dancers and choreographers The annual performance from rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice from our BA Modern Ballet the students of the BA Modern programme as part of the Ballet Programme, highlighting annual RCS Piano Festival. the talents of the dancers. See also Piano Festival p38. The performance will include a diverse range of work from Venue: Stevenson Hall classical ballet, to jazz and Tickets: £5-£10 contemporary dance, with (£7.50 concessions) traditional repertoire and 7 7 new works created specially for these performances. Dance Choreographers include: Christopher Hampson, Diana Loosmore and Sophie Laplane Venue: New Athenaeum Theatre Tickets: £5-£15.50 (concessions available) 0141 332 5057 0141 332 5057 rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice 8 Drama #RCSdrama 0141 332 5057 Illustration by Marc Thompson rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Henry IV And when the time comes, will A Midsummer A miracle of multi-faceted By William Shakespeare he be able to choose between Night’s Dream storytelling, it explores the Adapted from Henry IV duty and loyalty to an old By William Shakespeare self in the world and the inner Parts 1 & 2 by Gordon Barr friend? Directed by Hugh Hodgart world of the self, exposing the Directed by Gordon Barr Wed 22 Mar / 7.30pm need for empathy, balance and Sat 11 Mar / 7.30pm Shakespeare’s historical epic Thu 23 Mar / 11am & 7.30pm harmony in our relationships Tue 14 Mar / 2.30pm & 7.30pm moves from tavern to court Fri 24 Mar / 2.30pm (CAP) & 7.30pm with each other and with Wed 15 Mar / 11am & 7.30pm to battlefield, from hilarious nature. comedy to heartbreaking “Such tricks hath strong “Uneasy lies the head that tragedy and creates a vivid imagination that… in the night, A play for our uncertain and wears a crown” portrait of a nation and a family imagining some fear, how easy unpredictable times if ever in turmoil. is a bush supposed a bear?” there was one. Henry IV has won the crown from Richard II but his throne MA Classical and Contemporary Straight from the dark MA Classical and Contemporary faces rebellion and his health Text in partnership with Bard in corners of his imagination, Text in partnership with Bard in is failing. As the King prepares the Botanics. but also rooted in both Greek the Botanics. for war, his son Prince Hal is mythology and 16th century 9 languishing in brothels and Venue: Chandler Studio Theatre English court and country, this Venue: Chandler Studio Theatre taverns in the company of the Tickets: £13.50 (£11 concessions) most loved of Shakespeare’s Tickets: £13.50 (£11 concessions) notorious Sir John Falstaff. plays is both a delightful Can young Hal face up to the comedy and a sombre look at responsibilities required of some of the darker corners of an heir to the throne? Will the human psyche. he ever live up to his father’s expectations? 0141 332 5057 Table Pleasure Originally produced by Mark By Tanya Ronder and Pain Thomson for the Citizens Directed by Guy Hollands Adapted from Guy de Theatre 14 years ago, we are Sat 20 May / 2pm & 7.30pm Maupassant short stories very pleased to tell Guy de Sun 21 May / 7.30pm directed by Mark Thomson Maupassant’s story again. Tue 23 May / 7.30pm Wed 31 May / 7.30pm Wed 24 May / 7.30pm Thu 1 Jun / 7.30pm “tremendous bonhomie and Fri 2 Jun / 7.30pm wit, stirred up with a strongly rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice “Go on then, table, speak. You Sat 3 Jun / 2pm & 7.30pm felt sense of tragedy.” tell us, you were there, you’ve ★★★★★ The Guardian always been there." An evening with French writer (on the original 2002 production) Guy de Maupassant, charting Six generations, twenty-three his tragic journey from aspiring Venue: Circle Studio, Citizens characters and one very special writer into the darkness of Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, piece of furniture.
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