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SUPPORT THEATRE AT ITS BEST INCREASE YOUR SUPPORT FROM £100 AND BE PART OF OUR SHAKESPEARE CIRCLE: RSC SUPPORTERS AND MEMBERS PRIORITY BOOKING DATES TO SUPPORTERS PRIORITY PLUS FROM THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2016 ENJOY A CLOSER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WORLD’S BEST KNOWN THEATRE COMPANY FULL MEMBERS ONLINE & TELEPHONE FROM MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2016 DIRECTLY SUPPORT OUR WORK ASSOCIATE MEMBERS ONLINE & TELEPHONE FROM MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2016 ON STAGE AND IN CLASSROOMS PUBLIC BOOKING FROM MONDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2016 BENEFIT FROM PRIORITY PLUS BOOKING ATTEND EVENTS WITH ARTISTIC TEAMS FOR INFORMATION OR TO JOIN, CONTACT THE INDIVIDUAL GIVING TEAM ON 01789 272283 OR EMAIL [email protected] THANK YOU We are grateful to our many supporters and partners. Their support ensures that we can continue to stage the work of Shakespeare, his contemporaries and the most exciting new writers and performers of today. PUBLIC FUNDERS CORPORATE SUPPORTERS ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND Supports £5 tickets for 16--25s NATIONAL LOTTERY THROUGH ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND Official Brand Partner WWW.RSC.ORG.UK CREATIVE LEARNING PARTNERS 01789 403493 THEATRE AT ITS BEST MADE IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON SHARED AROUND THE WORLD IMAGE CREDITS: COVER BIRTHDAY FIREWORKS: LUCY BARRIBALL | KING LEAR: PAUL STUART | CYMBELINE: PETER JOHNSTON/ARCANGEL | THE TEMPEST: THE IMAGINARIUM STUDIOS AND RSC | THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN: NIKKI SMITH/ARCANGEL Preferred Hotel Partner for Matilda The Musical, London | THE ROVER: IZABELA HABUR/GETTY IMAGES | THE SEVEN ACTS OF MERCY: SARAH ANN LORETH/ARCANGEL VISIT SHAKESPEARE’S STRATFORD-UPON-AVON: TOP LEFT: PAUL ROBESON IN OTHELLO, 1959 PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGUS MCBEAN © RSC | TOP RIGHT: COSTUME DESIGN FOR THE TEMPEST, 1978 BY RALPH KOLTAI © RSC | MIDDLE LEFT: HELMET FOR ALAN HOWARD AS CORIOLANUS, 1977. DESIGNED BY FARRAH | MIDDLE RIGHT: SIR FRANK BENSON AS CALIBAN IN THE TEMPEST, 1897 | BOTTOM LEFT: VIVIEN LEIGH AND LAURENCE OLIVIER IN MACBETH, 1955 HORACE MANN SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPH FROM ANGUS MCBEAN © RSC | BOTTOM RIGHT: DRESS WORN BY JULIET STEVENSON AS TITANIA IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 1981, DESIGN BY MARIA BJORNSON EDUCATION: ROB FREEMAN | EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS: CRAIG STEPHENS | WHAT’S ON EVERYWHERE: JILL MARCUS © RSC | TICKET PRICES: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: PETER COOK | SWAN THEATRE: SASHA GUSOV AUGUST 2016 – FEBRUARY 2017 2016 Media Partner STRATFORD-UPON-AVON RSC REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 212481 PRINTED JANUARY 2016 WWW.RSC.ORG.UK 01789 403493 In the second half of this great celebratory year of Shakespeare we combine two of his greatest plays in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, alongside a season celebrating the 30th anniversary of our much loved Swan Theatre. Joining Cymbeline in repertoire over the summer I will direct a production of King Lear with Antony Sher in the title role. Having tackled the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in 2015, Antony now takes on Shakespeare’s complex tragic king; a man, much like Willy Loman, who watches helplessly as his life fractures around him. Following that production I will then direct The Tempest, with Simon Russell Beale returning to the company after a gap of over 20 years, to play Prospero. Inspired by the spectacular masques of Shakespeare’s day, we have set ourselves the challenge of creating TO the most technologically advanced production ever staged by the RSC. Working in collaboration with Intel and in association with The Imaginarium Studios we will be using technology never used on stage in this way before to conjure up Prospero’s island, inhabited by an array of magical and fantastical characters. As well as the great Shakespeare Jubilee, 2016 is also the 30th anniversary of the Swan Theatre. To celebrate we will stage the two plays that originally opened the theatre; Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen, directed by Blanche McIntyre and Aphra Behn’s The Rover, directed by Loveday Ingram. The season will end with a new play by Anders Lustgarten, The Seven Acts of Mercy. Switching between the 17th century and the present day, this thrilling play charts the creation of Caravaggio’s masterpiece and how its depiction of acts of compassion echoes through the ages. 2016 will also see the re-opening of The Other Place as our new studio theatre, rehearsal complex and home to our extensive costume store. In July and August it will host a new work festival responding to the provocation, “what is truly unsayable in Britain in the 21st century”. Details will be announced in Spring 2016. Alongside the work on stage will be workshops, debates and activities for audiences of all ages, including specific work for students, teachers and families. I hope that you will be able to join us as we celebrate the lasting HE WAS NOT OF AN AGE, legacy of Shakespeare and his continuing ability to speak to us about the BUT FOR ALL TIME! emotions, issues and events that shape our lives today. Gregory Doran Artistic Director The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by #RSC2016 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 20 August – 15 October 2016 Live in Cinemas 12 October 2016 COMPANY INCLUDES ROMAYNE ANDREWS ANTONY BYRNE EKE CHUKWU JAMES CLYDE JAMES COONEY BETHAN CULLINANE MARIÈME DIOUF PAAPA ESSIEDU KEVIN N GOLDING MARCUS GRIFFITHS NIA GWYNNE OLIVER JOHNSTONE BYRON MONDAHL THEO OGUNDIPE ANTONY SHER NATALIE SIMPSON CLARENCE SMITH King Lear has ruled for many years. DAVID TROUGHTON As age begins to overtake him, GRAHAM TURNER EWART JAMES WALTERS he decides to divide his kingdom KELLY WILLIAMS amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. DIRECTOR GREGORY DORAN A proud man he allows vanity to DESIGNER cloud his judgement, believing that NIKI TURNER he can relinquish the crown, but DIRECTOR TALK enjoy the same authority and respect THU 25 AUG he has always known. Misjudging Onstage | 5.15-6pm | £5 his children’s loyalty he soon finds PRODUCTION UNWRAPPED SAT 24 SEP himself stripped of all the trappings of Onstage | 10.15-11.15am | £5 state, wealth and power he had taken POST SHOW for granted. Alone in the wilderness TALK BACK WED 5 OCT he is left to confront the mistakes of a Onstage | FREE life that has brought him to this point. FOR ALL EVENTS www.rsc.org.uk/events Following his performance as FOR ALL EDUCATION Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s great RESOURCES AND EVENTS www.rsc.org.uk/education 20th century American tragedy AUDIO DESCRIBED Death of a Salesman, Antony Sher PERFORMANCES returns to play King Lear, one SAT 17 SEP (matinee) THU 6 OCT (matinee) of the greatest parts written by KING LEAR CAPTIONED Shakespeare. The production is PERFORMANCES directed by Artistic Director WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THU 15 SEP (matinee) FRI 23 SEP Gregory Doran. ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Extended Season COMPANY INCLUDES Until 15 October 2016 HIRAN ABEYSEKERA ROMAYNE ANDREWS Live in Cinemas 28 September 2016 GILLIAN BEVAN DOREENE BLACKSTOCK EKE CHUKWU JAMES CLYDE JAMES COONEY BETHAN CULLINANE MARIÈME DIOUF KEVIN N GOLDING MARCUS GRIFFITHS OLIVER JOHNSTONE Cymbeline is ruler of a divided BYRON MONDAHL Britain. When Innogen, the only THEO OGUNDIPE NATALIE SIMPSON living heir, marries her sweetheart GRAHAM TURNER in secret, an enraged Cymbeline TEMI WILKEY KELLY WILLIAMS banishes her new husband. Distracted by Innogen’s marriage, DIRECTOR Cymbeline is blind to the actions of MELLY STILL a powerful figure behind the throne DESIGNER ANNA FLEISCHLE who is plotting to seize power by LIGHTING murdering them both. PHILIP GLADWELL In exile, Innogen’s husband is MUSIC DAVE PRICE tricked into believing she has been unfaithful to him and in an act of DIRECTOR TALK MON 9 MAY impulsive jealousy begins a scheme Onstage | 5.15-6pm | £5 to have her murdered. Warned of POST SHOW the danger, Innogen runs away TALK BACK THU 26 MAY from court in disguise on a journey Onstage | FREE fraught with danger that will PRODUCTION eventually reunite Cymbeline UNWRAPPED SAT 6 AUG with a lost heir and reconcile Onstage | 10.15-11.15am | £5 the young lovers. FOR ALL EVENTS www.rsc.org.uk/events Shakespeare’s rarely performed FOR ALL EDUCATION romance is directed by Melly Still RESOURCES AND EVENTS www.rsc.org.uk/education who designed Tales from Ovid AUDIO DESCRIBED and Midnight’s Children for the PERFORMANCES RSC and whose directing credits SAT 23 JULY (matinee) & THU 11 AUG include The Cunning Little Vixen CYMBELINE CAPTIONED for Glyndebourne Opera, Coram Boy PERFORMANCES and The Revenger’s Tragedy for the WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SAT 4 JUNE (matinee) FRI 30 SEP National Theatre. ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE 8 November 2016 – 21 January 2017 On a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician, able to control the very elements and bend nature to his will. When a sail appears on the horizon, he reaches out across the ocean to the ship that carries the men who wronged him. Creating a COMPANY INCLUDES vast magical storm he wrecks the SIMON RUSSELL BEALE ship and washes his enemies up on DIRECTOR the shore. When they wake they find GREGORY DORAN themselves lost on a fantastical island DESIGNER STEPHEN BRIMSON LEWIS where nothing is as it seems. MUSIC In a unique partnership with Intel we PAUL ENGLISHBY will be using technology never used DIRECTOR TALK on stage in this way before to create WED 16 NOV a world that pushes the technical Onstage | 5.15-6pm | £5 boundries of theatre, making a POST SHOW TALK BACK magical and unforgettable theatrical MON 12 DEC Onstage | FREE experience.
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  • Playwright DAVID HARE Receives the Guild's 2017 GIELGUD AWARD

    Playwright DAVID HARE Receives the Guild's 2017 GIELGUD AWARD

    But the culminating moments of a richly varied program Playwright DAVID HARE Receives were devoted to the GIELGUD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE DRAMATIC ARTS and to the afternoon’s final presentation, for The Guild’s 2017 GIELGUD AWARD OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH THEATRE.. That trophy went to LYN GARDNER, “a renowned theatre journalist, critic, n Sunday, October 15, at a memorable UK THEATRE author, and champion of the industry, whose invaluable O AWARDS luncheon in London’s historic GUILDHALL, one insights can most often be found in The Guardian and The of today’s most versatile dramatic artists received the 2017 Stage, of which she is an associate editor.” GIELGUD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE DRAMATIC ARTS. Not only has DAVID HARE enriched our theatrical repertory resenting this year’s GIELGUD AWARD was FREDDIE FOX, with some of the most resonant and challenging stageplays of P an actor of impeccable pedigree who is admired for our era. He has also produced screenplays that have garnered films such as The Three Musketeers, Victor Frankenstein, The Riot Club, Pride, and Worried About the Boy, as well as for such stage roles as Bosie in The Judas Kiss, a David Hare drama about the tragic fall of Oscar Wilde. Mr. Fox talked about how much he’d enjoyed working not only with Sir David but with artistic director Jonathan Kent while co-starring in this Hampstead Theatre production. As he bestowed the 2017 GIELGUD trophy, he shared two messages from admirers of Sir David who were unable to attend the Guildhall luncheon.