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Tag: royal shakespeare company

Streaming theatre from home – the verdict

25th April 202026th April 2020Charlie West

With the lockdown affecting practically everything, many of us have turned to binge-watching Netflix or catching up on shows that we never quite got round to seeing. As nice as this is, the other week I got a bit bored with getting through all ten series of Benidorm. Instead, I felt the impulse to watch […]

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Richard II recommends RSC’s repertoire

19th November 2013James Watt

Richard II is shadowed by a crushing and overwhelming feeling of loss. Ethereal sopranos sing a chilling lament, the widowed Duchess of Gloucester howls from behind tear-stained cheeks, and the members of the court march in funereally. It is this sense of grief and decline that hangs like a spectre over the rest of the […]

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An interview with Gregory Doran, RSC Artistic Director

21st February 201321st February 2013Oliver Forrest

Gregory Doran seems like a man who has just landed his dream job.  Having been involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 25 years, he has recently been made its new Artistic Director; though with the previous head (Sir Michael Boyd) having had creative control over the 2013 calendar, we won’t be seeing his output […]

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If it’s Godunov for Moscow, it’s Godunov for the RSC

17th January 201317th January 2013Melissa Purkiss

To many, Russian literature is revered as a towering tradition blending a darker nihilism and realism with an innate, inexplicable ‘Russian-ness’. So why is it that so many new British renditions of long-loved Russian plays are actively seeking to subvert these expectations by employing abstract staging, setting and an emphasis on physical movement to accentuate […]

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