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Annual Review ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY WATERSIDE STRATFORD-UPON-AVON WARWICKSHIRE CV37 6BB Registered Charity No. 212481 TEL: +44 1789 296655 www.rsc.org.uk Find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/theRSC ANNUAL Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/theRSC REVIEW Cover image: Paterson Joseph and Cyril Nri in Julius Caesar. 2012-13 Our job is to give the best possible experience of Shakespeare and live theatre to the widest possible audience, and to inspire a lifelong love PEOPLE EXPERIENCED OUR of his work and theatrical performance. Everything we create is made in Stratford-upon-Avon, WORK WORLDWIDE IN 2012/13 Shakespeare’s home town, where we’ve trained generations of actors, directors and crafts people and continue to develop talent for the future. 2012/13 has been a very successful year for the Company. This Review highlights just some of the work we have shared with more than 1.5 million people worldwide this year, and it illustrates the ways in which we have given young people a great first experience of Shakespeare and shared skills with amateur theatre makers. Our commitment to excellence continues more strongly than ever, with a determination to keep Shakespeare at the centre of what we do, both in a historical and contemporary context. We have a new strategy to take us forward into the next decade. At its heart is the entire First Folio. We will stage every one of Shakespeare’s 36 plays on the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre over the next six years, return the Swan Theatre to the work of Shakespeare’s contemporaries and other writers, and reopen our studio theatre, The Other Place, as a creative hub for new work, experimentation INTRODUCTION and artist development, led by Deputy Artistic Director, Erica Whyman. The Company is in great shape, buoyed by the continued success of Matilda The Musical, now in receipt of 47 awards worldwide, and the effectiveness of our fundraising and commercial operations. In the financial year to 31 March 2013, we increased total income by 30% to £62.6m, achieved through growth in box office of 75%, in fundraising of 28% and in trading income of 9%. This means we have generated over 73% of our own income in this financial year, supported by the slightly reduced contribution of public investment from Arts Council England of £16.6m. We hope you will join us on the next stage of this great Company’s life, as we make every play an event – made in Stratford and shared around the world, on stage, on tour and, from this autumn, live in cinemas. NIGEL HUGILL GREGORY DORAN CATHERINE MALLYON CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jonathan Slinger as Hamlet. Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Iqbal Khan, was set in India with a British South Asian cast. It opened in Stratford-upon-Avon before transferring to London’s Noël Coward Theatre for a six week run. PEOPLE HAD THEIR FIRST EXPERIENCE OF AN RSC PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR FULL SCALE PRODUCTIONS A Midsummer Night’s Dream - (As You Like It) was directed by WERE STAGED AS PART OF THE Dmitry Krymov in collaboration with WORLD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Russia’s Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Dmitry Krymov’s Laboratory and School of Dramatic Art. We produced th e W orld Shakespeare Festival ...for the Cultural Olympiad, reaching more than 1.5 million people over six months in the biggest celebration of Shakespeare ever staged. The Festival involved 120 partner organisations and more than 10,000 professional and amateur artists and theatre makers from around the world. It included 69 full-scale productions, 7 exhibitions, 6 film screenings, 5 scratch performances, more than 260 amateur shows, over a dozen digital commissions, 15 commissioned short films, 2 digital broadcasts, an online education collaboration with the BBC, an international education conference and a host of surrounding events and projects. SUPPORTED BY BP THE FOUNDING PRESENTING PARTNER OF THE WORLD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL TICKETS SOLD ‘Straightforward best of the year, FOR JULIUS CAESAR no competition...the noblest Roman play of them all’ SUNDAY TIMES CULTURAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR We staged a landmark production of Julius Caesar ...which began life in Stratford-upon-Avon, then opened in London, toured to five UK cities, visited Russia for the first time GREAT ART SHARED ACROSS THE WORLD THE WORLD SHARED ACROSS ART GREAT in 45 years, and performed in New York and Columbus, Ohio. The production travelled 13,029 miles and sold over 110,000 tickets. More than 260,000 people saw the production re-created for television and broadcast on BBC4 and online. In Stratford and New York up to 50 volunteers from the local community performed each night to create the crowd, working alongside the actors and creative team. Chinna Wodu on the film set for Julius Caesar which was broadcast on BBC4 and online to 260,000 people. BARCLAYS – SUPPORTING PARTNER OF JULIUS CAESAR IN RUSSIA ‘...even more glorious than we were MAJOR promised...the most satisfying and AWARDS subversive musical ever to come out of Britain, where it was nurtured into life by the Royal Shakespeare Company’ NEW YORK TIMES We opened our acclaimed production of Matilda The Musical on Broadway ...winning four Tony Awards and breaking attendance records at New York’s Shubert Theater, with our producing partner, the Dodgers. Matilda was made in Stratford and developed over seven years. Since opening at The Courtyard Theatre, more than a million people have seen the show in London and New York, and it has won 47 major awards. AMERICAN AIRLINES IS THE PREFERRED AIRLINE FOR MATILDA THE MUSICAL Jake Fairbrother and Siu Hun Li in The Orphan of Zhao. ‘...this is a stunning act of theatrical reclamation. Gregory Doran has unearthed a drama of which most of us were unaware and given it a superlative production... an extraordinary theatrical event’ GUARDIAN ON THE ORPHAN OF ZHAO We premiered three newly-adapted classics ...with a single company of actors GREAT ART AROUND THE WORLD AROUND ART GREAT in repertoire, which explored what was happening elsewhere in the world GREAT ART SHARED ACROSS THE WORLD THE WORLD SHARED ACROSS ART GREAT during Shakespeare’s lifetime. A World Elsewhere was a trilogy of newly-adapted international plays on the Swan Theatre stage, including The Orphan of Zhao, adapted by James Fenton and based, in part, on a version written in the 14th century by Ji Junxiang; Boris Godunov, an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s play about the ruthless Tsar who ruled from 1598 to 1605 by Adrian Mitchell; and Bertolt Brecht’s A Life of Galileo, exploring the trial of the great scientist in 1616, newly translated by RSC Writer in Residence, Mark Ravenhill. THE RSC LITERARY DEPARTMENT IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE DRUE HEINZ TRUST OUR YEAR IN PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCES OF 25 PRODUCTIONS ( APRIL 2012 - MARCH 2013) MARCH 2012 APRIL APRIL/MAY MAY JUNE DESIGNED BY DESIGNED BY DESIGNED BY DIRECTED BY DESIGNED BY MATILDA Jon Bausor Ti Green Jon Bausor ROMEO AND JULIET TWO ROSES Tim Webb Michael Vale THE MUSICAL LIGHTING DESIGNED BY LIGHTING DESIGNED BY LIGHTING DESIGNED BY IN BAGHDAD FOR RICHARD III DESIGNED BY LIGHTING DESIGNED BY Book by Dennis Kelly Jon Clark Rick Fisher Jon Clark by William Shakespeare by Companhia BufoMecânica Claire de Loon Vince Herbert adapted by Monadhil Daood Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin MUSIC BY MUSIC AND SOUND BY MUSIC BY NEW PRODUCTION MUSIC BY MUSIC BY CAMBRIDGE THEATRE, LONDON Adem Ilhan Nick Powell Adem Ilhan English version by FIRST PERFORMANCE Max Reinhardt Akintayo Akinbode MOVEMENT BY SOUND DESIGNED BY Raad Mushatat and Deborah Shaw SOUND DESIGNED BY 1 APRIL 2012 SOUND DESIGNED BY THE COURTYARD THEATRE PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY 417 PERFORMANCES Christopher Shutt Ayse Tashkiran Christopher Shutt IRAQI THEATRE COMPANY Jonathan Ruddick PRODUCTION 7 MAY 2012 Gina Print SHUBERT THEATRE, NEW YORK FIGHTS BY FIGHTS BY CHOREOGRAPHY BY 7 PERFORMANCES MOVEMENT BY Kev McCurdy Terry King Fin Walker FIRST PERFORMANCE Diane Alison-Mitchell 4 MARCH 2013 AL-WATANI THEATRE, BAGHDAD ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON 25 PERFORMANCES PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY FIGHTS BY 18 MAY 2012 JULIUS CAESAR FIGHTS BY PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY 17 APRIL 2012 by William Shakespeare DIRECTED BY Manuel Harlan Hugo Glendinning Kev McCurdy 6 PERFORMANCES Kev McCurdy SWAN THEATRE NEW PRODUCTION Matthew Warchus PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY 26 APRIL 2012 DIRECTED BY PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY DESIGNED BY Keith Pattison 11 PERFORMANCES Cláudio Baltar and FIRST PERFORMANCE Kwame Lestrade Rob Howell THE COMEDY THE TEMPEST ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE by William Shakespeare RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON Fabio Ferreira CHOREOGRAPHY BY OF ERRORS SET DESIGNED BY 28 MAY 2012 NEW PRODUCTION KING JOHN 28 JUNE 2012 47 PERFORMANCES I, CINNA (THE POET) Peter Darling by William Shakespeare 4 PERFORMANCES Fernando Mello Da Costa FIRST PERFORMANCE by William Shakespeare by Tim Crouch MUSICAL SUPERVISION NEW PRODUCTION and Rostand Albuquerque THEATRE ROYAL, ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE NEW PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY NEW PRODUCTION AND ORCHESTRATION BY FIRST PERFORMANCE COSTUME DESIGNED BY NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE 30 MARCH 2012 FIRST PERFORMANCE Monadhil Daood FIRST PERFORMANCE Christopher Nightingale ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Rosa Magalhães 19 JULY 2012 LIGHTING DESIGNED BY 47 PERFORMANCES SWAN THEATRE SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNED BY SWAN THEATRE 16 MARCH 2012 Jabbar Jodi Alabodi LIGHTING DESIGNED BY 11 PERFORMANCES Hugh Vanstone ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON 6 APRIL 2012 13 JUNE 2012 51 PERFORMANCES COSTUME DESIGNED BY Renato Machado and Paulo NOEL COWARD THEATRE, LONDON SOUND DESIGNED BY 9 JUNE 2012 51 PERFORMANCES 3 PERFORMANCES
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