We were in Newcastle Theatre Royal with Measure for Measure, As You Like It, and The Taming of the Shrew, and about to head for Blackpool Grand for the final leg of the UK Tour. Then The Taming of the Shrew company would set out for Chicago, Washington, South Korea and Tokyo (just ahead of the Olympics). In Stratford, the get-out of The Boy in the Dress was underway in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and the fit-up was about to start in preparation for the technical rehearsals to begin for the new summer season of The Winter’s Tale and The Comedy of Errors. The company in the Swan were preparing for the last week of performances of The Whip and King John, and at The Other Place, Projekt Europa was in the final stage of rehearsals for Europeana and Peer Gynt, which would follow. At the Cambridge Theatre, was about to enjoy its tenth birthday in the West End, while at the Ambassadors Theatre Kunene and the King was entering the final week of its run and A Museum in Baghdad was preparing to open at London’s Kiln Theatre. Then the theatres closed. It was a devastating end to the year, and one that nobody could have predicted for the RSC, or for our many friends and colleagues in the theatre industry. Although we have been unable to produce our usual Annual Review, we wanted to celebrate all that had been achieved before the Covid-19 crisis hit and closed theatres around the country overnight. With memorable successes for the Company in 2019/2020 it is important to acknowledge the exceptional work of so many people, and of course the ongoing support that has been so clearly 2019: Jackson Laing (Dennis). Photo by Manuel Harlan © RSC demonstrated and welcome since the pandemic began.

The Boy in the Dress, Thank you to all who continue to support us in so many ways. Nobody knew what the RSC and the theatre industry faced as we entered the new Financial Year, but we face those challenges with optimism that live theatre will return, and the RSC will continue to inspire and captivate audiences © RSC Cover image: . Photo by Steve Tanner and transform lives through amazing The Whip experiences of Shakespeare’s plays and of great theatre.

GREGORY DORAN, Artistic Director

CATHERINE MALLYON, Executive Director Photo credit: Corey Montague-Sholay. REFLECTING OUR NATION ON STAGE WITH A CROSS-CAST ENSEMBLE OF 27 ACTORS ACROSS THREE SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTIONS We continued our journey through Shakespeare’s canon with As You Like It, a reverse gendered The Taming of the Shrew, which saw the roles of Kate and Petruchio flipped, and Measure for ‘This season Measure, particularly relevant today as reflects the power Shakespeare’s #metoo play, performed of storytelling in in Stratford-upon-Avon, at the Barbican its most essential Theatre London and on a nationwide form, with the tour. Sadly, the international visits to actor at the centre Tokyo, South Korea, Washington and of the work’. The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by Chicago were cancelled due to the GREGORY DORAN, The Gatsby Charitable Foundation and The Kovner Foundation global pandemic. Artistic Director Royal Shakespeare Theatre productions sponsored by Darwin Escapes 2019. Photo by Ikin Yum ©RSC 2019. Photo by Ikin Yum

The Taming of the Shrew The Taming SHARING THE EXCITEMENT OF THEATRE WITH FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE

The world première of our new musical, The audience reaction was overwhelming. The Boy in the Dress, played to sell out ‘Blown away by @TheRSC audiences across 18-weeks, with a future #RSCBoyinDress fabulous, uplifting and West End run in the pipeline. moving. Just wonderful.’ ‘I wanted to write a ‘#RSCBoyinDress is simply astounding’. story that encouraged The pandemic has delayed our future people to recognise plans for The Boy in the Dress just as that difference can be it has interrupted the West End run of celebrated, that it’s ok to our ever-popular Matilda the Musical. be yourself. I’ve always We are committed to bringing these back loved musicals and, to life and sharing them with audiences somehow, I’d always as soon as we can. imagined this book to be made into a musical so to be working with the RSC, Mark Ravenhill and song-writing partners The Boy in the Dress was supported by RSC Production Circle members Elizabeth Boissevain and Robbie Williams and Guy Andrew Jeffreys, Charles Holloway, Ms Teresa Tsai and Kathleen J. Yoh Chambers on this new production feels like a dream collaboration‘. DAVID WALLIAMS Photo by Manuel Harlan (c) RSC

The Boy in the Dress 2019. CELEBRATING MOMENTS IN HISTORY THROUGH NEW PLAYS

The world première of Kunene and Shakespeare’s rarely performed King ‘As a nation we are looking long and hard at our the King was by and starred acclaimed John, performed alongside two new position within the wider world, which is why it South African actor John Kani, plays which shone a spotlight on feels like an appropriate moment to reflect, not only playing opposite . two fascinating moments in British upon the state of our own nation, but also upon In a co-production with Cape Town’s imperial history: the founding of what nationhood means to us today…new writing The work of the RSC Literary Department is generously supported Fugard Theatre we celebrated the nation-state of Iraq in Hannah remains central to what we do and we continue to by The Drue and H.J. Heinz II Charitable Trust 25 years since the ending of Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad, and channel the inquiring spirit of Shakespeare’s own Miranda Curtis CMG - Season Supporter, Swan Theatre Winter 2019-2020 Apartheid in South Africa. Juliet Gilkes Romero’s The Whip, age through the interrogation of our own history and place in the wider world, in all of its King John was supported by RSC Production Circle member which explored the government bail- Marcia Whitaker out of British slave-owners to secure complexity and contradiction.’ The work of Juliet Gilkes Romero was supported through our the Abolition of Slavery Act in 1833. ERICA WHYMAN, Deputy Artistic Director collaboration with the University of Birmingham Photo by Ellie Kurrtz © RSC

Kunene and the King. John Kani and Antony Sher in A PROJECT LIKE NO OTHER Our season celebrating the best of We wanted to ask creative questions Sadly our audiences never got to European theatre making was sadly about our changing continent, to reflect see the work, but we are committed the first casualty of the pandemic. on what we shared as theatre-makers and to working with the Projekt Europa to celebrate our different traditions and artists to try to find a way for these This unique project, conceived and led instincts. What emerged was a captivating productions to make it to the stage. by Maria Å berg and curated by exploration of our shared histories and the Maria and Judith Gerstenberg, should questions we share about our ever more have opened to audiences in the uncertain future. Swan Theatre in April 2020. Photo by Hanna-Katrina Jedrosz © RSC

. in rehearsal

Europeana WELCOMING OUR AUDIENCES AROUND THE COUNTRY

In London at the Barbican, Ambassadors Theatre, Arcola Theatre and Cambridge Theatre in the West End, and out on the road for a UK wide tour, we enjoyed seeing our audiences outside of Stratford-upon-Avon. For the first time we took out all three of our main Shakespeare productions on a UK wide tour. As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure took up residency across a two-week period in each city playing the three productions in repertoire. Our audiences joined us at The Lowry Theatre in Salford, the Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatre Royal Nottingham and Theatre Royal Newcastle. Sadly the Newcastle visit was cut short and theatres were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic which meant we missed our visit to the Grand Theatre Blackpool, the final date of the tour. ‘I cannot stop Our access performances, including thinking about integrated BSL, attracted a large number the fact that our of first-time theatre goers. We welcomed children will people who had never seen the RSC remember the with 23% of audiences visiting us for last week for the first time. And it was lovely to see the rest of their many young people join us in their local lives. I know it’s theatre. a cliché to talk about making We waved goodbye to our UK and memories Ireland Tour of Matilda The Musical that will last a which finished its phenomenally lifetime, but that successful run with performances in undoubtedly Edinburgh, Bristol, Southampton and happened’ Norwich with standing ovations all Class teacher, round. The accompanying education Portswood Primary, programme, Change My Story, involved Southampton on 8,855 children and young people Change My Story through performances, workshops and onstage events. RSC work in America and the UK is generously supported by RSC America A new version of our production of The RSC’s London production of The Taming of the Shrew Timon of Athens opened in New York is kindly supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and Washington with a US cast. Our and the London Community Foundation. Photo by Helen Maybanks © RSC As You Like It at the Barbican was supported by ICBC Associate Artist, Kathryn Hunter, reprised Edwardian Hotels London - Preferred Hotel Partner her role as Timon and played to great for Matilda The Musical in London critical acclaim. Measure for Measure. ‘It’s made dreams come true and friendships for life’ Creative Learning producer, Blackpool Grand

CREATING A SHAKESPEARE NATION

Thanks to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation our adult participation project co-created three co- productions inspired by Romeo and Juliet. The project finds ways for adults who have never experienced theatre to discover the pleasure and

Photo by Sam Allard © RSC power of it through Shakespeare’s . plays. We worked with Norwich Theatre Royal; the Grand Theatre, Blackpool and Nottingham Theatre Royal alongside adult groups including an LGBTQ Church, two mental-health choirs, a group of refugees and local hoteliers. The project continues with three more regional theatre partners, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury; The Alhambra Theatre, Bradford; and Hall for

Shakespeare Nation: 'Capulets & Candyfloss’ performance in Nottingham, July 2019 The Shakespeare Nation adult Cornwall. Together we will build new engagement work is generously supported co-productions in summer 2021. by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Photo by Sam Allard © RSC

2019.

The Merchant of Venice First Encounters:

INTRODUCING YOUNG PEOPLE TO SHAKESPEARE

Our aim is to transform lives through Bradford, Middlesbrough, Newcastle 117 Next Generation Backstage vivid first encounters with Shakespeare’s upon Tyne, Blackpool, and . students and Shakespeare Ambassadors plays through many different projects. shadowed and supported technical, First Encounters was kindly supported by We continue to see strong evidence Twenty-three young people from our stage management and front of house Adobe, The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity, ‘Some that our work is a catalyst for helping Next Generation Act Young Company teams during the course of the tour. TAK Advisory Limited and The Misses Barrie Charitable Trust of those young people to find their voice, develop took it in turns to play the parts of RSC Next Generation is generously supported by children their identity and have the confidence Lorenzo and Jessica, performing struggle 64% rated the production as Excellent The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation to take their place in the world. alongside our professional cast. Next and GRoW @ Annenberg. to sit for 5 Generation Act is our national talent The work of the RSC Education Department mins but Co-created with 19 partner schools development programme which provides 41% of all students who watched is generously supported by they were and 6 partner theatres across England, opportunities for young people from the performance were ‘new to Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Adobe, mesmerised The Clore Duffield Foundation, GRoW @ Annenberg, our First Encounters with Shakespeare backgrounds currently under-represented Shakespeare’ and 15% had never The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust, for 90!’ edited version of The Merchant of Venice in the arts industry. seen a play before The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, Samsung, Teacher, introduced young people to Shakespeare The Polonsky Foundation, The Schroder Foundation, Old Basford in their school hall or local theatre in The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust, The Wyfold Charitable Trust, Teale Charitable Trust, Primary School, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, Hull, The Grimmitt Trust, TAK Advisory Limited Nottingham Nottingham, Canterbury, Cornwall, and Stratford Town Trust. SUPPORTING YOUNG PEOPLE AND TEACHERS AROUND THE COUNTRY

Our partnership with 11 regional theatres with initiating a Shakespeare inspired project and 261 schools nationally through our in their local community, and inform the work Associate Schools programme is funded by that we develop with school communities and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Samsung. theatres locally. Through the work we do together there is strong evidence of whole school This year we co-produced 28 regional communities inspiring each other through performance festivals involving 2818 young their experiences of Shakespeare’s work. people from 162 schools in Blackpool, Bradford, Cornwall, County Durham, Hull, We recruited and delivered leadership Kent, Leicestershire, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, training for 750 young Shakespeare Nottingham, Northampton, Stoke-on-Trent, The Associate Schools programme is supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust, The Schroder Foundation, The 29th May Ambassadors nationally who represent a Suffolk, Uxbridge, Warwickshire and York. 1961 Charitable Trust, Teale Charitable Trust, The Grimmitt Trust, and is powered by diverse range of backgrounds and abilities. 5183 family members and members of local Samsung as part of its commitment to inspire learning through technology. Aged 9 to 18 the Ambassadors are tasked communities enjoyed the experience. The Playmaking Festival is supported by RSC Friends Photo by Sara Beaumont © RSC

Bishopton Primary Playmaking Festival 2019. FREE EVENTS FOR ALL A brilliant 78% of those who visited our Rules Don’t Apply exhibition rated it as ‘Excellent’, with 70% of those who visited being under 16. The exhibition celebrated difference through interactive activities during the run of The Boy In The Dress. Our events are designed to introduce people to the RSC and theatre in different ways, welcoming them to our Stratford-upon-Avon home and the excitement of live performance. A local and socially diverse audience came to our Inside Out outdoor family activity Photo by Sam Allard © RSC area during the summer with 60% of visitors from our immediate CV37 postcode and 32% C2DE. Inside Out and The Swirl. Photo by Gina Print © RSC

Rules Don't Apply exhibition, November 2019. DIGITAL INNOVATION Our journey to discover what the Audience Our work and expertise in digital of the Future may be continues, supported supported the wider sector and by Innovate UK and working with our communities in the UK and overseas, 15 partners to explore the future of live including being a Sundance Creative performance. Advisor for their New Frontier Lab The project is funded within the Audience of the programme and an industry advisor Future programme by UK Research and Innovation We delivered our first Digital Fellowship for NESTA’s newly created Policy and through Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. Programme in collaboration with Magic Evidence Centre researching new and Audience of the Future is brought about through a Leap, University of Portsmouth, i2Media unique consortium of cultural industry specialists innovative models for the creative including: De Montfort University · Epic Games · Research and University of London industries. i2 Media Research Limited · Intel · Magic Leap · Goldsmiths. The Fellowships were 50:50 Manchester International Festival · Marshmallow Laser gender split and based regionally across This journey continues into 2021. Feast · Nesta · Phi Centre · Philharmonia Orchestra · Punchdrunk · Royal Shakespeare Company · the South East, South West, London University Of Portsmouth · The Space. and West Midlands. Together they are Audience of the Future is generously supported by prototyping a new model for connecting Miranda Curtis CMG, the Sidney E. Frank Foundation the new skills and workforce for the arts. and Audrey Mandela and Sean Phelan. Photo by Sam Allard © RSC OUR WORK ON STAGE

As You Like It First Encounters with Shakespeare BY The Merchant of Venice New Production BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, LONDON New Production AND ON TOUR STRATFORD-UPON-AVON AND ON TOUR DIRECTOR Kimberley Sykes DIRECTOR Robin Belfield SET DESIGNER DESIGNER Anisha Fields COSTUME AND LIGHTING DESIGNER Bretta Gerecke COMPOSER Tarek Merchant COMPOSER Tim Sutton MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Ingrid Mackinnon SOUND DESIGNER Jonathan Ruddick PRODUCTION PHOTOS Sam Allard MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Ayse Tashkiran FIGHT DIRECTORS Rachel Brown Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown King John BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PUPPETRY DIRECTOR AND CO-DESIGNER New Production Mervyn Millar STRATFORD-UPON-AVON PRODUCTION PHOTOS Topher McGrillis DIRECTOR Eleanor Rhode DESIGNER Max Johns The Taming of the Shrew LIGHTING DESIGNER Lizzie Powell BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE COMPOSER Will Gregory New Production SOUND DESIGNER David Gregory STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, LONDON MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Tom Jackson Greaves AND ON TOUR FIGHT DIRECTORS DIRECTOR Justin Audibert Rachel Brown Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown SET DESIGNER Stephen Brimson Lewis PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY Steve Tanner COSTUME DESIGNER Hannah Clark LIGHTING DESIGNER Matt Peel Venice Preserved COMPOSER Ruth Chan BY THOMAS OTWAY SOUND DESIGNER Claire Windsor New Production MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Lucy Cullingford STRATFORD-UPON-AVON FIGHT DIRECTORS DIRECTOR Prasanna Puwanarajah Rachel Brown Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown DESIGNER James Cotterill PRODUCTION PHOTOS Ikin Yum LIGHTING DESIGNER Jack Knowles SOUND DESIGNER George Dennis MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Polly Bennett Measure for Measure FIGHT DIRECTOR Kate Waters BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE VIDEO AND LASER DESIGNER Nina Dunn New Production STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, LONDON PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY Helen Maybanks AND ON TOUR The Provoked Wife DIRECTOR Gregory Doran BY JOHN VANBRUGH DESIGNER Stephen Brimson Lewis New Production LIGHTING DESIGNER Simon Spencer STRATFORD-UPON-AVON COMPOSER Paul Englishby DIRECTOR Phillip Breen SOUND DESIGNER Steven Atkinson DESIGNER Mark Bailey MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Lucy Cullingford LIGHTING DESIGNER Tina MacHugh FIGHT DIRECTORS COMPOSER Paddy Cunneen Rachel Brown Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown SOUND DESIGNER Dyfan Jones PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY Helen Maybanks MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Ayse Tashkiran FIGHT DIRECTOR Renny Krupinski PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY Pete Le May OUR WORK ON STAGE

Kunene and the King Matilda The Musical The Whip #WeAreArrested (Arcola Theatre) BY JOHN KANI AUTHOR BY JULIET GILKES ROMERO BY CAN DÜNDAR New Production BOOK Dennis Kelly New Production Adapted by Pippa Hill and Sophie Ivatts CAPE TOWN, MUSIC & LYRICS Tim Minchin STRATFORD-UPON-AVON Co Production with Arcola Theatre London LONDON STRATFORD-UPON-AVON LONDON AND ON TOUR DIRECTOR Kimberley Sykes AND LONDON DIRECTOR SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNER DIRECTOR Sophie Ivatts DIRECTOR Janice Honeyman CHOREOGRAPHER Peter Darling Ciaran Bagnall DESIGNER Charlie Cridlan DESIGNER Birrie le Roux SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Rob Howell COSTUME DESIGNER Nicky Shaw LIGHTING DESIGNER Claire Gerrens LIGHTING DESIGNER Mannie Manim ORCHESTRATIONS & ADDITIONAL MUSIC COMPOSER Akintayo Akinbode LIGHTING DESIGNER (RE-CREATED) COMPOSER Neo Muyanga Christopher Nightingale SOUND DESIGNER Claire Windsor Laura O’Driscoll SOUND DESIGNER Jonathan Ruddick LIGHTING DESIGNER Hugh Vanstone MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Coral Messam SOUND DESIGNER Oliver Soames SOUND RECREATED (FUGARD) David Classen SOUND DESIGNER Simon Baker DRAMATURGS Pippa Hill and Becky Latham MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Ingrid Mackinnon MAGIC CONSULTANT John Bulleid PRODUCTION PHOTOS ILLUSION FIGHT DIRECTOR Kev McCurdy PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY Ellie Merridale by Claude Barnado/Ellie Kurrtz A Museum in Baghdad PRODUCTION PHOTOS Steve Tanner The Boy in the Dress BY HANNAH KHALIL Crooked Dances Tartuffe BY MOLIÈRE NOVEL David Walliams New Production BY ROBIN FRENCH STRATFORD-UPON-AVON BOOK Mark Ravenhill New Production Adapted by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto BIRMINGHAM REP THEATRE MUSIC AND LYRICS DIRECTOR Erica Whyman STRATFORD-UPON-AVON New Production Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers DESIGNER Tom Piper DIRECTOR Elizabeth Freestone New Production LIGHTING DESIGNER Charles Balfour DESIGNER Basia Binkowska DIRECTOR Iqbal Khan STRATFORD-UPON-AVON COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER Lauren Watson DESIGNER Bretta Gerecke Oguz Kaplangi LIGHTING DESIGNER Richard Howell DIRECTOR Gregory Doran COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Tanushka Marah COMPSOER Sarah Sayeed DESIGNER Robert Jones Max Poppenheim DRAMATURGS David Grieg and Pippa Hill SOUND DESIGNER Jeremy Dunn CHOREOGRAPHER Aletta Collins MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Vicki Manderson VIDEO DESIGNER Nina Dunn MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Shelley Maxwell LIGHTING DESIGNER Mark Henderson DRAMATURG Pippa Hill MUSICAL SUPERVISOR AND ARRANGEMENTS PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY Ellie Kurttz VIDEO RSC Production Video Bruce O’Neil PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY Ellie Kurttz MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND ARRANGEMENTS Alan Williams ORCHESTRATORS Tom Deering and Guy Chambers SOUND DESIGNERS Paul Groothius and Tom Marshall PUPPETRY DIRECTOR Laura Cubitt DRAMATURG Pippa Hill PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY Manuel Harlan THANK YOU

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