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    The Royal Shakespeare Company aims to keep audiences in touch with Shakespeare as our contemporary – understanding his work through today’s artists, actors and writers. Therefore the Company’s repertoire not only includes the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but classic plays by international dramatists and work by living writers.

    Our work is created through the ensemble principles of collaboration, trust, mutual respect, and a belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We want to inspire artists and staff to learn and make theatre at the same time.

    We want to broaden and deepen our relationships with audiences and artists, producing bold, progressive work that engages with the world we live in.

    Tickets are available for productions in Stratford-upon-Avon.

    Address:The Courtyard Theatre
    Southern Lane
    Stratford-upon-Avon
    Warwickshire
    Postcode:CV37 6BB
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    Website:www.rsc.org.uk/16-25 »

    Currently showing:

    • King Lear

      February 18th 2010 - August 26th 2010

      • Drama
      • History
      • Shakespeare
      • Audio Described / Touch Tour
      • Captioned

      Toppled by pride and stripped of all status, King Lear heads into the wilderness with a fool and a madman for company. Shakespeare's great tragedy peels away the trappings of society to reveal the unforgiving truth of the human condition.

      After their acclaimed collaboration on The Winter's Tale, David Farr once again directs the Ensemble. Greg Hicks takes the title role with Kathryn Hunter playing the Fool.

      Plays in repertoire from 18 February to 26 August 2010.

      Free tickets are available for anyone under the age of 26, on Tuesday evenings. Only 50 are available for these select performances, 40 can be booked in advance and 10 will be available to book on the day from The Courtyard Theatre.

      Book your ticket online at www.rsc.org.uk/16-25 with the promotional code 1625, or call the Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1114. Proof of age will be required.

    • Romeo and Juliet

      March 12th 2010 - August 27th 2010

      • Drama
      • Romance
      • Shakespeare
      • Audio Described / Touch Tour
      • Captioned

      In the instant of a chance meeting two young people fall in love. Impulsively they marry in secret, but in a divided city their innocent union is threatened by a bloody family feud. Shakespeare vividly captures the beauty, intimacy and ultimate fragility of young love in a hostile world.

      Rupert Goold returns to the Company to direct his first production as an Associate Director following his acclaimed 2006 production of The Tempest. Rupert's recent credits include Oliver! and Enron. Sam Troughton and Mariah Gale play Romeo and Juliet.

      Plays in repertoire from 12 March to 27 August 2010.

      Free tickets are available for anyone under the age of 26, on Tuesday evenings. Only 50 are available for these select performances, 40 can be booked in advance and 10 will be available to book on the day from The Courtyard Theatre.

      Book your ticket online at www.rsc.org.uk/16-25 with the promotional code 1625, or call the Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1114. Proof of age will be required.

    • Anthony and Cleopatra

      April 10th 2010 - August 28th 2010

      • Drama
      • Shakespeare
      • Audio Described / Touch Tour
      • Captioned

      Two charismatic and powerful leaders find in each other an irresistible and yet unattainable equal.

      Caught between desire and duty their affair will shake the foundations of the known world. Power politics and passion collide in Shakespeare's captivating tragedy.

      RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd directs Darrell D'Silva and Kathryn Hunter in the title roles.

      Free tickets are available for anyone under the age of 26, on Tuesday evenings. Only 50 are available for these select performances, 40 can be booked in advance and 10 will be available to book on the day from The Courtyard Theatre.

      Book your ticket online at www.rsc.org.uk/16-25 with the promotional code 1625, or call the Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1114. Proof of age will be required.

    Forthcoming:

    • Morte D'Arthur

      June 11th 2010 - August 28th 2010

      • Drama
      • History

      The story of King Arthur's attempt to unite his country, blends myth and magic, from the sword in the stone to the establishment of the Round Table and the quest for the Holy Grail. It traces the adultery of Lancelot and Guinevere, and ultimately the death of the 'once and future king'. It is an often surprising and unexpected version of the familiar story, and the first great telling of the cycle in the English language.

      Mike Poulton's new version workshopped and developed by the ensemble under the direction of Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, brings the story to the RSC stage for the first time. Gregory's most recent productions include Love's Labour's Lost and Hamlet. Mike Poulton's last work for the RSC was his hugely popular 2005 adaptation of The Canterbury Tales.

      Free tickets are available for anyone under the age of 26, on Tuesday evenings. Only 50 are available for these select performances, 40 can be booked in advance and 10 will be available to book on the day from The Courtyard Theatre.

      Book your ticket online at www.rsc.org.uk/16-25 with the promotional code 1625, or call the Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1114. Proof of age will be required.

    • The Winter's Tale

      July 14th 2010 - September 2nd 2010

      • Drama
      • Shakespeare

      'David Farr's magical production...magnificent ensemble acting' Guardian

      Leontes is the man with the perfect life. Powerful, wealthy and surrounded by a loving family he should be content, but instead he is ill at ease with the world around him. Isolated by a destructive jealousy, he lashes out at those closest to him, losing his wife and son and abandoning his daughter in distant Bohemia.

      Sixteen years later, having grown up in a pastoral idyll, Leontes' daughter falls in love with a young visitor, setting in motion a chain of events that could eventually reunite their scattered family.

      Free tickets are available for anyone under the age of 26,only on Tuesday 31st August 2010. Only 50 are available for this select performance, 40 can be booked in advance and 10 will be available to book on the day from The Courtyard Theatre.

      Book your ticket online at www.rsc.org.uk/16-25 with the promotional code 1625, or call the Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1114. Proof of age will be required.

    • As You Like It

      July 21st 2010 - September 4th 2010

      • Comedy
      • Romance
      • Shakespeare

      'Michael Boyd's actors go for the heart of this serious, beautiful comedy' Sunday Times

      When two young people fall in love they are unable to act on their impulse. Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and mistaken identity.

      One of Shakespeare's great comedies, As You Like It subverts the traditional rules of romance, confusing gender roles, nature and politics in a play that reflects on how bewildering yet utterly pleasurable life can be.

      Free tickets are available for anyone under the age of 26, on Tuesday 3rd August and Tuesday 10th August 2010 only. Only 50 are available for these select performances, 40 can be booked in advance and 10 will be available to book on the day from The Courtyard Theatre.

      Book your ticket online at www.rsc.org.uk/16-25 with the promotional code 1625, or call the Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1114. Proof of age will be required.

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