Rsc 2013 14 a year in performance

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY WATERSIDE STRATFORD-UPON-AVON WARWICKSHIRE CV37 6BB Registered Charity No. 212481

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In 2013 – 2014 we staged 1984 performances of 22 productions or co-productions in Stratford-upon-Avon, London or on tour. We performed across the UK and around the world selling 1.7 million tickets for RSC productions.

383 actors worked and trained with us and we featured live music in all our productions, working with 100 musicians and commissioning new scores from 15 composers.

MARCH 2013

APRIL

MATILDA THE MUSICAL

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Book by Dennis Kelly Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin CAMBRIDGE THEATRE, LONDON

1 APRIL 2013 TO 31 MARCH 2014 419 PERFORMANCES

SHUBERT THEATRE, NEW YORK

4 MARCH 2013 TO 31 MARCH 2014 403 PERFORMANCES DIRECTED BY

Matthew Warchus DESIGNED BY

Rob Howell CHOREOGRAPHED BY

Peter Darling MUSICAL SUPERVISION AND ORCHESTRATION BY

Christopher Nightingale

MUSIC BY

Jon Boden SOUND DESIGNED BY

David McSeveney

Paul Kieve

7 PERFORMANCES

NEW THEATRE, HULL

9 - 13 APRIL 2013

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Sheila Burnett

HAMLET

by William Shakespeare NEW PRODUCTION

FIRST PERFORMANCE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

14 MARCH 2013

18 OCTOBER 2013 11 PERFORMANCES DIRECTED BY

David Farr Jon Bausor Jon Clark MUSIC BY

David Sawer SOUND DESIGNED BY

Gareth Fry

ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER

Pete Malkin MOVEMENT BY

FIGHTS BY

Lucy Bailey SET COSTUMES AND VIDEO DESIGNED BY

William Dudley

MOVEMENT BY

27 PERFORMANCES

FIGHTS BY

FIGHTS BY

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Lez Brotherston Malcolm Rippeth MUSIC BY

Stu Barker and Sheema Mukherjee

Ann Yee

CONTINUING TOUR HARVEY THEATRER, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW YORK

10 – 28 APRIL 2013

FIGHTS BY

SOUTHERN THEATER, COLUMBUS, OHIO

Terry King

22 PERFORMANCES

DIRECTOR OF PUPPETRY

1 – 5 MAY 2013

VIDEO DESIGNED BY

DIRECTED BY

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

DESIGNED BY

Sarah Wright Max White

5 PERFORMANCES

Gregory Doran

Hugo Glendinning

Michael Vale

AS YOU LIKE IT

Vince Herbert

by William Shakespeare NEW PRODUCTION

FIRST PERFORMANCE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

12 APRIL 2013

79 PERFORMANCES

THEATRE ROYAL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY MUSIC BY

Akintayo Akinbode SOUND DESIGNED BY

Jonathan Ruddick MOVEMENT BY

Diane Alison-Mitchell FIGHTS BY

Kevin McCurdy

29 OCTOBER 2013

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

DIRECTED BY

TITUS ANDRONICUS

7 PERFORMANCES

Maria Aberg DESIGNED BY

Kate Waters

Naomi Dawson

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

James Farncombe

Keith Pattison

28 MAY 2012

SOUND DESIGNED BY

Jonathan Ruddick

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Kwame Lestrade

by William Shakespeare

Kate Waters ILLUSIONS BY

Richard Pinner PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Simon Annand

A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS

by Thomas Middleton Edited by Sean Foley and Phil Porter NEW PRODUCTION

SWAN THEATRE

6 JUNE 2013

64 PERFORMANCES DIRECTED BY

Sean Foley DESIGNED BY

Alice Power

James Farncombe Ben and Max Ringham Kate Prince

Alison de Burgh Manuel Harlan

ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

by William Shakespeare NEW PRODUCTION

FIRST PERFORMANCE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

19 JULY 2013

37 PERFORMANCES

THEATRE ROYAL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

5 NOVEMBER 2013 7 PERFORMANCES DIRECTED BY

Nancy Meckler DESIGNED BY

Katrina Lindsay LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Tim Lutkin MUSIC BY

Keith Clouston SOUND DESIGNED BY

Gregory Clarke MOVEMENT BY

Liz Ranken FIGHTS BY

Malcolm Ranson VIDEO DESIGNED BY

Max White

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Ellie Kurttz

NEW PRODUCTION

FIRST PERFORMANCE SWAN THEATRE

MUSIC BY

16 MAY 2013

Laura Marling

76 PERFORMANCES

SOUND DESIGNED BY

DIRECTED BY

Tom Gibbons

Chris Davey Tom Mills

FIRST PERFORMANCE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

REGENT THEATRE, STOKE

DIRECTED BY

CHOREOGRAPHY BY

Colin Richmond

Keith Pattison

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Alan Cox

7 PERFORMANCES

7 PERFORMANCES

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

MUSIC AND SOUND BY

DESIGNED BY

VIDEO SYSTEM DESIGNED BY

Joseph Alford and Carolina Valdés

16 - 20 APRIL 2013

MUSIC AND SOUND BY

Malcolm Ranson

NEW PRODUCTION

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

2 - 6 APRIL 2013

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

by William Shakespeare

THE WINTER’S TALE CONTINUING TOUR FESTIVAL THEATRE, EDINBURGH

FIGHTS BY

Emma Rice

Renny Krupinski

DESIGNED BY

NEW PRODUCTION

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

JULIUS CAESAR

Manuel Harlan

by William Shakespeare

FIRST PERFORMANCE SWAN THEATRE

DESIGNED BY

Ayse Tashkiran

DIRECTED BY

SOUND DESIGNED BY ILLUSION BY

NEW PRODUCTION

MOVEMENT BY

FIGHTS BY

Lizzi Gee

THEATRE ROYAL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Simon Baker

by Tanika Gupta

JULY

11 APRIL 2013

75 PERFORMANCES

Hugh Vanstone

THE EMPRESS

MAY/JUNE

MOVEMENT BY

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Craige Els in Matilda The Musical

Oliver Fenwick

APRIL/MAY

Michael Fentiman

A Mad World My Masters

AUGUST

SEP/OCT

OCT/NOV

DECEMBER

CANDIDE

DIRECTED BY

DESIGNED BY

ANSPACHER THEATER, NYC USA

A new play by Mark Ravenhill inspired by Voltaire NEW PRODUCTION

FIRST PERFORMANCE SWAN THEATRE

29 AUGUST 2013 32 PERFORMANCES DIRECTED BY

Lyndsey Turner DESIGNED BY

Soutra Gilmour LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Tim Lutkin MUSIC BY

Michael Bruce SOUND DESIGNED BY

Christopher Shutt MOVEMENT BY

Scott Ambler FIGHTS BY

Bret Yount PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Manuel Harlan

DUNSINANE

by David Grieg

NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND PRODUCTION FIRST PERFORMED THE RSC

CONTINUING TOUR Presented by the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company EDEN COURT, INVERNESS

24 – 31 AUGUST 2013 HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE, ABERDEEN

3 – 7 SEPTEMBER 2013 THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW

10 – 14 SEPTEMBER 2013 OXFORD PLAYHOUSE

17 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2013 BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE

24 – 28 SEPTEMBER 2013 KING’S THEATRE, EDINBURGH

1 – 5 OCTOBER 2013 THEATRE ROYAL, BATH

8 – 12 OCTOBER 2013

Roxana Silbert

Lily Arnold

DESIGNED BY

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

18 FEBRUARY 2014

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

MUSIC COMPOSITION BY

DIRECTED BY

Robert Innes Hopkins Chahine Yavroyan

Vince Herbert

MUSIC AND SOUND BY

Feargal Murray and Camille O’Sullivan

MOVEMENT BY

RICHARD II

Nick Powell

Anna Morrissey FIGHTS BY

Terry King PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

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TWELFTH NIGHT

by William Shakespeare CREATED BY FILTER IN ASSCOCIATION WITH THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

ONGOING TOUR DIRECTED BY

Sean Holmes MUSIC AND SOUND BY

Tom Haines and Ross Hughes

THE RAPE OF LUCRECE

By William Shakespeare Adapted by Elizabeth Freeston, Feargal Murray and Camille O’Sullivan DUBLIN, IRELAND O’REILLY THEATRE, BELVEDERE

10 - 12 OCTOBER 2013

DERRY-LONDONDERRY, AS PART OF DERRY-LONDONDERRY CITY OF CULTURE 2013 WATERSIDE THEATRE AND ARTS CENTRE

18 - 20 OCTOBER 2013

THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS KONINKLIJKE SCHOUWBURG

19 - 21 NOVEMBER 2013 DIRECTED BY

Elizabeth Freestone PERFORMED & SUNG BY

Camille O’Sullivan PIANO

Feargal Murray

40 PERFORMANCES

Tarell Alvin McCraney DESIGNED BY

Tom Piper LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

by William Shakespeare

Stephen Strawbridge

NEW PRODUCTION

MUSIC AND ORCHESTRATIONS BY

FIRST PERFORMANCE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

10 OCTOBER 2013 40 PERFORMANCES

BARBICAN THEATRE, LONDON

9 DECEMBER 2013 45 PERFORMANCES DIRECTED BY

Gregory Doran

Michael Thurber

Michael Ashcroft FIGHTS BY

Terry King PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

58 PERFORMANCES DIRECTED BY

Jeremy Herrin DESIGNED BY

SEASON LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Terry King PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

MUSIC BY

Hugo Glendinning

WENDY & PETER PAN

MUSIC BY

MOVEMENT BY

11 DECEMBER 2013

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

FIRST PERFORMANCE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

Martin Slavin

FIRST PERFORMANCE SWAN THEATRE

FIGHTS BY

NEW PRODUCTION

SOUND DESIGNED BY

NEW PRODUCTION

Paule Constable

Gelan Lambert

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Paul Englishby

A new dramatisation of Hilary Mantel’s novel by Mike Poulton

Christopher Oram

Stephen Brimson Lewis Tim Mitchell

WOLF HALL

MOVEMENT BY

by Ella Hickson Adapted from the novel by J M Barrie

DESIGNED BY

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2014

10 DECEMBER 2013 91 PERFORMANCES DIRECTED BY

Jonathan Munby DESIGNED BY

Colin Richmond LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Oliver Fenwick

Kwame Lestrade

MUSIC BY

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

SOUND DESIGNED BY

Olly Fox

Paule Constable Stephen Warbeck SOUND DESIGNED BY

Nick Powell MOVEMENT BY

Siân Williams FIGHTS BY

Bret Yount PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Keith Pattison

BRING UP THE BODIES

Dramatisation by Mike Poulton based on the novel by Hilary Mantel NEW PRODUCTION

FIRST PERFORMANCE SWAN THEATRE

19 DECEMBER 2013 57 PERFORMANCES

FIGHTS BY

Bret Yount PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Keith Pattison

FIRST ENCOUNTER: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

by William Shakespeare NEW PRODUCTION

CURVE LEICESTER

6 MARCH 2014

4 PERFORMANCES

NEW VIC NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME

18 MARCH 2014

24 MARCH 2013

Tim Mitchell MUSIC BY

Terry King

DIRECTED BY

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Roxana Silbert DESIGNED BY

Tom Scutt LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

Rick Fisher MOVEMENT BY

Nick Powell

Struan Leslie PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Ellie Kurttz

Michael Fentiman Colin Richmond Tom Mills

Kevan Allen Terry King

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

Simon Annand

MOVEMENT BY FIGHTS BY

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY USA

Siân Williams

SOUND DESIGNED BY

8 PERFORMANCES

MUSIC AND SOUND BY

16 PERFORMANCES

Paul Englishby

31 MARCH 2014

2 PERFORMANCES

31 PERFORMANCES

9 JANUARY 2014

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

6 PERFORMANCES

27 FEBRUARY 2014

FIGHTS BY

MOVEMENT BY

Stephen Brimson Lewis

Michael Ashcroft

COLONY THEATRE, MIAMI BEACH USA

Nick Powell

DESIGNED BY

ARTS THEATRE CAMBRIDGE

SOUND DESIGNED BY

Stephen Warbeck

Gregory Doran

THE GRAND THEATRE BLACKPOOL

CHOREOGRAPHED BY

Manuel Harlan

DIRECTED BY

Martin Slavin

MUSIC BY

26 PERFORMANCES

3 PERFORMANCES

8 PERFORMANCES

PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY

7 NOVEMBER 2013

28 MARCH 2014

4 PERFORMANCES

20 FEBRUARY 2014

MUSIC AND SOUND BY

David Plater

Henry IV Part II ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

ROSE THEATRE KINGSTON

Ian William Galloway

FIRST PERFORMANCE SWAN THEATRE

Paule Constable

17 MARCH 2014

18 MARCH 2014

ST GEORGE’S HALL BRADFORD

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

VIDEO DESIGNED BY

Terry King

10 MARCH 2014

8 PERFORMANCES

DESIGNED BY

FIGHTS BY

Christopher Oram

Michael Ashcroft

10 PERFORMANCES

2 PERFORMANCES

SEASON LIGHTING DESIGNED BY

NEW PRODUCTION A RSC CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE PUBLIC THEATER, NEW YORK AND GABLESTAGE, MIAMI

28 FEBRUARY 2014

THEATRE ROYAL BATH

DIRECTED BY

Jeremy Herrin

5 PERFORMANCES

MARLOWE THEATRE CANTERBURY

DESIGNED BY

MOVEMENT BY

NEW PRODUCTIONS

TOUR BIRMINGHAM REP

8 PERFORMANCES

14 FEBRUARY 2014

by William Shakespeare

FIRST PERFORMANCE Henry IV Part I ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

4 PERFORMANCES

6 FEBRUARY 2014

HENRY IV PARTS I AND II

THEATRE ROYAL BATH PRODUCTIONS AND BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENT THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY PRODUCTION OF A LIFE OF GALILEO

EVERYMAN THEATRE CHELTENHAM

2 APRIL 2014

Christopher Shutt

by Bertolt Brecht Translated by Mark Ravenhill

FIRST PERFORMANCE COURTYARD THEATRE

DIRECTED BY

by William Shakepeare Edited by Tarell Alvin McCraney

A LIFE OF GALILEO

Antony Sher in Henry IV Part I.

Kwame Lestrade

ACTING COMPANIES MATILDA THE MUSICAL LONDON

Fabian Aloise Marc Antolin Verity Bentham Charles Brunton James Clyde Billy Cullum Joseph Davenport Mike Denman Lara Denning Haley Flaherty Steve Furst Alex Gaumond Mark Goldthorp Julie Gough Jack Greaves Madeleine Harland Melanie La Barrie Antony Lawrence Maria Lawson Joshua Lay Katie Lee David Leonard Antonio Magro Annette McLaughlin Katy Monk Rachel Moran Gary Murphy Kay Murphy Lisa Davinia Phillip Leanne Pinder David Rudin Nick Searle Tommy Sherlock Hollie Taylor Amy Thornton Joshua Wyatt CHILDREN

Jaime Adler Ella Bartman Thomas Berry Marcus Billany Elise Blake Ellie Botterill Kai Brosnan Kalifa Burton

Cally Callaghan Kira Caple Claudia-Rose Carlier Tasha Chapple Amy Charlton Harry Collett Eithne Cox Sebastian Croft Rhianna Dorris Daniel Dowling Georgia Farrow Oliver Finnegan Rory Fraser Cristina Fray James Gardner Sasha Grey Freddie Haggerty Chloe Hawthorn Madeleine Haynes Holly Hazelton Ashton Henry-Reid Michael Higgins Nathan Howland Noga Inspector Cara Jenkins Jamie Kaye George King Sonny Kirby Ilana Kneafsey Uwan Lam Cody Leahy George Littell Oliver Loades Alfie Manser Lollie McKenzie Ruby McNamara Lauren Marler Marcus May Tahj Miles Syakira Moeladi Colby Mulgrew Psalms Nissi Myers-Reid Sophie Naglik Talia Palamathanan Georgia Pemberton William Price Emily Robins

Lottie Sicilia Samuel Small Evie Sneath Garrett Tennant Joshua Tikare Tallulah Treadaway Harry Tunningly Ella Tweed Sam Varley Red Walker Robbie Warke Gabriel Werb Lara Wollington Arthur Yamaguchi Ella Yard Thierry Zimmerman

THE WINTER’S TALE Rakie Ayola Sally Bankes Daniel Betts Tara Fitzgerald Gavin Fowler Andrew Hanratty Nick Holder Kieran Knowles Adam Levy Daniel Millar Charlotte Mills Emma Noakes Joseph Pitcher Pearce Quigley David Shaw-Parker Phil Snowden Jo Stone-Fewings Bethan Walker Ben Whybrow Duncan Wisbey CHILDREN

Fred Barry Conner Hughes Luca Saraceni-Gunner

THE EMPRESS Ankur Bahl Dom Coyote

Vincent Ebrahim Beatie Edney Rina Fatania Tamzin Griffin Kristin Hutchinson Tony Jayawardena Japjit Kaur Emily Mytton Aki Omoshaybi Ray Panthaki Anneika Rose Ed Woodall

HAMLET AS YOU LIKE IT ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Karen Archer Cliff Burnett Charlotte Cornwell Kiza Deen Daniel Easton David Fielder Dave Fishley Michael Grady-Hall Greg Hicks Rosie Hilal Mark Holgate Joanna Horton Chris Jared Natalie Klamar Pippa Nixon Luke Norris Oliver Ryan Jonathan Slinger Robin Soans John Stahl Samuel Taylor Nicolas Tennant Alex Waldmann

JULIUS CAESAR

Segun Akingbola Adjoa Andoh Mark Ebulue

Ray Fearon Andrew French Marcus Griffiths Ivanno Jeremiah Paterson Joseph Jeffery Kissoon Samantha Lawson Simon Manyonda Emilyne Mondo Joseph Mydell Cyril Nri Theo Ogundipe Chiké Okonkwo Jude Owusu Ewart James Walters Eugene Washington Chinna Wodu

A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS CANDIDE TITUS ANDRONICUS Joe Bannister Ellie Beaven Ishia Bennison Stephen Boxer Ben Deery Richard Durden Susan Engel Richard Goulding Kevin Harvey John Hopkins Linda John-Pierre Gwilym Lloyd Harry McEntire Perry Millward Matthew Needham Ciarán Owens Nicholas Prasad Ian Redford Rose Reynolds Steffan Rhodri Sarah Ridgeway David Rubin Katy Stephens Badria Timimi

Dwane Walcott Jonny Weldon CHILDREN

George David Hal Hewetson

THE RAPE OF LUCRECE Camille O’Sullivan Feargal Murray

RICHARD II

Elliot Barnes-Worrell Antony Byrne Sean Chapman Marty Cruickshank Oliver Ford Davies Gracy Goldman Marcus Griffiths Emma Hamilton Jim Hooper Youssef Kerkour Jane Lapotaire Nigel Lindsay Jake Mann Sam Marks Miranda Nolan Keith Osborn Michael Pennington Joshua Richards Oliver Rix David Tennant Simon Thorp Edmund Wiseman

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Jonathan Cake Charise Castro-Smith Samuel Collings Ash Hunter Chukwudi Iwuji Joaquina Kalukango Ian Lassiter Chivas Michael Sarah Niles Henry Stram

WENDY & PETER PAN Michelle Asante Fiona Button Simon Carroll-Jones Richard Clews Matt Costain Emma Cunniffe Jolyon Coy Gregory Gudgeon Guy Henry Susan Hingley Emily Holt Jack Horner Rebecca Johnson Arthur Kyeyune Will Merrick Charlotte Mills Jack Monaghan Dodger Phillips Guy Rhys Brodie Ross Colin Ryan Sam Swann Dafydd Llyr Thomas Jamie Wilkes Josh Williams Andrew Woodall

WOLF HALL BRING UP THE BODIES Joey Batey Nicholas Boulton Lucy Briers Leah Brotherhead Olivia Darnley Nicholas Day Daniel Fraser Benedict Hastings Madeleine Hyland Joshua James Paul Jesson Lydia Leonard Ben Miles Pierro Niel Mee Nathaniel Parker Oscar Pearce

Matthew Pidgeon John Ramm Nicholas Shaw Giles Taylor Jay Taylor

FIRST ENCOUNTER: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Claire Brown Caroline Faber David Fielder Chris Jared Forbes Masson Mimi Ndiweni Ann Penfold Katy Stephens Anjana Vasan

HENRY IV PARTS I AND II Elliot Barnes-Worrell Martin Bassindale Jasper Britton Antony Byrne Sean Chapman Paola Dionisotti Oliver Ford Davies Nicholas Gerard-Martin Robert Gilbert Jonny Glynn Nia Gwynne Alex Hassell Jim Hooper Youssef Kerkour Jennifer Kirby Sam Marks Keith Osborn Leigh Quinn Joshua Richards Antony Sher Simon Thorp Trevor White Simon Yadoo