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Twelfth Night SEPTEMBER 2017–FEBRUARY 2018 STRATFORD-UPON-AVON WWW.RSC.ORG.UK 01789 403493 Old stories are so often the ones we return to again and again to make sense of the world around us. Whether it’s a fairy tale or a family anecdote, we constantly retell the past to help explain our present. 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 working with amateur theatre groups – 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’ THEATRE AT ITS BEST epic Cicero trilogy by Mike Poulton (Wolf Hall/Bring Up The Bodies). This thrilling MADE IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON political saga tells the story of the rise and fall of the great Roman orator, Cicero. SHARED AROUND THE WORLD FOR EVERYONE 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 two weeks, nine events will explore Ovid’s stories from many angles; I hope that, by coming along, you will gain an even richer appreciation of Shakespeare. 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) and the co-writing debut of Matt Hartley and Kirsty Housley with a double bill of provocative short plays. The second festival will see The Other Place taken over by an experimental and vibrant piece of theatre: more details will follow soon. 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 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE 15 September – 14 October 2017 Live in Cinemas on 11 October COMPANY INCLUDES SOPE DIRISU DIRECTOR ANGUS JACKSON DESIGNER ROBERT INNES HOPKINS LIGHTING RICHARD HOWELL FIGHTS TERRY KING A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus DIRECTOR TALK WED 20 SEPTEMBER transports us back to the emergence of Onstage | 5.15-6pm, £5 the republic of Rome. POST SHOW TALK BACK TUE 26 SEPTEMBER Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless Onstage | FREE soldier but a reluctant leader. INSIGHT DAY His ambitious mother attempts to carve THU 5 OCTOBER Onstage | 10.15-11.15am, £5 him a path to political power, but he DEBATE struggles to change his nature and do THU 5 OCTOBER what is required to achieve greatness. Swan Theatre | 4.45-6pm, £8 In this new city state struggling to find PRODUCTION UNWRAPPED SAT 7 OCTOBER its feet, where the gap between rich Onstage | 10.15-11.15am, £5 and poor is widening every day, FOR ALL EVENTS www.rsc.org.uk/events Coriolanus must decide who he really is and where his allegiances lie. aviermarin.com.mx FOR ALL EDUCATION j RESOURCES AND EVENTS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Rome Season Director, Angus Jackson, www. www.rsc.org.uk/education AUDIO DESCRIBED completes our collection of PERFORMANCES Shakespeare’s Roman plays with a (+ FREE TOUCH TOUR) WED 4 OCTOBER visceral production which sees SAT 14 OCTOBER (MATINEE) Sope Dirisu (One Night in Miami, CAPTIONED Donmar Warehouse, 2016) take on PERFORMANCE FRI 13 OCTOBER the title role. Sculpture by Javier Marín ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 2 November 2017 – 24 February 2018 Live in cinemas 14 February 2018 DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER LUSCOMBE DESIGNER SIMON HIGLETT LIGHTING TIM MITCHELL MUSIC NIGEL HESS SOUND JEREMY DUNN MOVEMENT JENNY ARNOLD ‘I am all the daughters FIGHTS KEV McCURDY of my father’s house, And all the brothers too.’ DIRECTOR TALK WED 8 NOVEMBER Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited Onstage | 5.15-6pm, £5 love – hilarious and heartbreaking. PRODUCTION UNWRAPPED Two identical twins are separated in SAT 3 FEBRUARY Onstage | 10.15-11.15am, £5 a shipwreck, and forced to fend for INSIGHT DAYS themselves in a strange land. The first THU 8 FEBRUARY THU 22 FEBRUARY twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, Onstage | 10.15-11.15am, £5 who dotes on OIivia, who falls for POST SHOW TALK BACK Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. THU 15 FEBRUARY Onstage | FREE Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting FOR ALL EVENTS image of his twin sister... www.rsc.org.uk/events FOR ALL EDUCATION Christopher Luscombe, director of RESOURCES AND EVENTS the ‘glorious’ (Daily Telegraph) www.rsc.org.uk/education Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCES About Nothing (2014 & 2016), returns (+ FREE TOUCH TOUR) FRI 26 JANUARY to tackle Shakespeare’s greatest SAT 24 FEBRUARY (MATINEE) comedy, a brilliantly bittersweet CAPTIONED account of ‘the whirligig of time’. PERFORMANCES FRI 19 JANUARY THU 15 FEBRUARY (MATINEE) Twelfth Night is generously supported by the Twelfth Night Syndicate ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE 27 November 2017 – 4 February 2018 DIRECTOR RACHEL KAVANAUGH DESIGNER STEPHEN BRIMSON LEWIS LIGHTING TIM MITCHELL A brand new adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic – one of WRITER & DIRECTOR TALK TUE 5 DECEMBER the most loved short stories ever Onstage | 5.15-6pm, £5 written. In one ghostly Christmas PRODUCTION UNWRAPPED night, cold-hearted businessman SAT 13 JANUARY Onstage | 10.15-11.15am, £5 Ebenezer Scrooge learns to pity POST SHOW TALK BACK himself and to love his neighbour – WED 17 JANUARY (BSL INTERPRETED) but is that enough? Onstage | FREE A festive tale of redemption and INSIGHT DAY THU 18 JANUARY compassion. Onstage | 10.15-11.15am, £5 David Edgar is one of our greatest PRIMARY OPEN DAY THU 25 JANUARY living writers. His rich history with FOR ALL EVENTS the RSC stretches from Destiny in www.rsc.org.uk/events 1976 through the multi-award-winning FOR ALL EDUCATION adaptation of Dickens’ RESOURCES AND EVENTS www.rsc.org.uk/education Nicholas Nickleby, to Written on the AUDIO DESCRIBED Heart (2011). Now he returns to PERFORMANCES Dickens to rediscover the social (+ FREE TOUCH TOUR) FRI 12 JANUARY conscience of this timeless tale. SUN 4 FEBRUARY (MATINEE) Rachel Kavanaugh (Alice in CHARLES DICKENS CAPTIONED A NEW ADAPTATION PERFORMANCES Wonderland, 2001; The Merry Wives THU 4 JANUARY (MATINEE) of Windsor, 2003) directs, fresh BY DAVID EDGAR WED 24 JANUARY from stunning the West End with SEMI-INTEGRATED BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE her award-winning production of INTERPRETED Half A Sixpence. PERFORMANCE WED 17 JANUARY Suitable for ages 7 and over and RELAXED PERFORMANCE children go half price. THU 1 FEBRUARY (MATINEE) (Terms and conditions apply – see website for details) SWAN THEATRE 15 September – 28 October 2017 DIRECTOR KIMBERLEY SYKES DESIGNER TI GREEN LIGHTING CIARAN BAGNALL MUSIC MIKE FLETCHER SOUND CLAIRE WINDSOR MOVEMENT AYSE TASHKIRAN Aeneas is a refugee in exile, DIRECTOR TALK fleeing a war-torn Troy and seeking TUE 19 SEPTEMBER Onstage | 5.15-6pm, £5 new roots in Europe. Shipwrecked POST SHOW TALK BACK in Carthage, the meddling gods (BSL INTERPRETED) TUE 17 OCTOBER intervene; they fill Queen Dido Onstage | FREE with all-consuming love for Aeneas. PRODUCTION UNWRAPPED In Marlowe’s unsettling tale of SAT 21 OCTOBER Onstage | 10.15-11.15am, £5 sacrifice, the lovers must decide FOR ALL EVENTS whether to follow their hearts or www.rsc.org.uk/events fulfil their political destinies. Dido, FOR ALL EDUCATION overwhelmed with passion, is RESOURCES AND EVENTS www.rsc.org.uk/education propelled to her terrifying final act. AUDIO DESCRIBED Director Kimberley Sykes (Associate PERFORMANCES (+ FREE TOUCH TOUR) Director, A Midsummer Night’s SAT 7 OCTOBER (MATINEE) THU 26 OCTOBER Dream tour, 2016) delves into CAPTIONED Marlowe’s darkly humorous politics PERFORMANCE of identity and happiness, creating FRI 20 OCTOBER an urgent world where gods meet SEMI-INTEGRATED BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE man, East meets West, sea meets INTERPRETED land and fate hangs by an PERFORMANCE TUE 17 OCTOBER unforgiving thread. Photo: Anne Vinogradoff Sculpture: Paige Bradley. SWAN THEATRE 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. 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