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Europeana
16th March, 2020

UPDATED: Season Preview: The RSC, Spring and Summer 2020

This isn’t a sponsored post.
BrumHour is invited to review productions at The RSC throughout the year.

Compiled by Dave Massey twitter.com/BrumHour

UPDATE 9th April: Please note that the starting dates for the Shakespeare productions are affected until at least 30th June. Check the RSC website for additional updates.

Season Preview: The RSC,
Spring and Summer 2020

Including three productions with Projectk Europa and three Shakespeare productions as part of The RSC’s ongoing programme to stage all thirty-six works of Shakespeare’s plays. Here is spring and summer of 2020 at the edge of the water in Stratford-upon-Avon.


The Winter’s Tale (Start date TBA to 2nd October)

Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Directed by Erica Whyman this tale is set partly in the 1960s with the ghosts of a fascist Europe forming an updated backdrop to this production.

The Winter’s Tale

Tickets here: rsc.org.uk/the-winters-tale


The Comedy of Errors (Start Date TBA to 3rd October)

Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Described as a farce and fairytale, Philip Breen brings this mistaken identity story to the Stratford-upon-Avon stage with Miles Jupp as Antipholus of Syracuse.

The Comedy Of Errors

Book tickets here: rsc.org.uk/the-comedy-of-errors


Pericles (Postponed)

Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The cast is yet to be announced for this Blanche McIntyre directed story. The RSC website says:

The medieval poet John Gower returns from the grave to tell the story of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

Pericles

Tickets here: rsc.org.uk/pericles


Europeana (Cancelled)

Swan Theatre

The first of three plays this spring and summer at The RSC that are part of Projekt Europa, Patrik Ouředník’s book is adapted by Maria Aberg and Judith Gerstenberg and explores the 100 years of the twentieth century at a frantic pace.

Europeana

Book tickets at: rsc.org.uk/europeana


Peer Gynt (Cancelled)

Swan Theatre

Ibsen reimagined for today’s audience and directed by Barbara Frey, The RSC website says:

In a world where identity is commodity and greed is God, what really is the price we pay for individual freedom?

Peer Gynt

Tickets are on sale at: rsc.org.uk/peer-gynt


Blindness and Seeing (Cancelled)

Swan Theatre

The third of the three plays from Projectk Europa, Blindness and Seeing explores a town where one women is left with her vision when the others lose their vision.

Blindness And Seeing

Tickets here: rsc.org.uk/blindness-and-seeing


Twelfth Night (24th to 26th September)

Presented in a ninety-minute version aimed at 7 to 13 year-olds Twelfth Night tells the story of shipwrecked Viola who disguises herself as a servant for Duke Orsino.

First Encounters – Twelfth Night

See more details here: rsc.org.uk/first-encounters-twelfth-night


The RSC is an accessible theatre and is 15 minutes walk from Stratford-upon-Avon railway station which itself is served by an hourly from Birmingham in the evening.

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