What's On at the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon in 2010?
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The aim of the RSC is to keep modern audiences in touch with Shakespeare as our contemporary.
That means that as well as the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, our repertoire includes classic plays by international dramatists and work by living writers.
The Courtyard Theatre’s stage configuration will be a prototype for the redeveloped Royal Shakespeare Theatre. The Courtyard Theatre is the RSC’s main theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon while work on transforming the Royal Shakespeare Theatre is carried out.
When the development of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre is complete, The Courtyard Theatre will be dismantled and The Other Place will re-open as the RSC’s studio theatre.
The Winter's Tale directed by David Farr
Location: Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
Start: 14 July 2010 | Ends: 2 September 2010
Website: The Winter's Tale
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. |
As You Like It directed by Michael Boyd
Location: Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
Start: 21 July 2010 | Ends: 4 September 2010
Website: As You Like It
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. |
Julius Caesar directed by Lucy Bailey
Location: Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
Start: 28 July 2010 | Ends: 4 September 2010
Website: Julius Caesar
As Julius Caesar's strength and popularity look set to propel him to the imperial throne, those closest to him act to prevent what they fear will become a dictatorship. But the brutal assassination of one man unleashes a tide of violence that will drag thousands into a bloody civil war.
A masterpiece of political powerplay and manipulation, Julius Caesar examines the conflict between one man's ambition and the good of the state. |
The Comedy of Errors in association with Told by an Idiot. Edited by Gary Owen and directed by Paul Hunter
Location: Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
Start: 7 August 2010 | Ends: 11 September 2010
Website: The Comedy of Errors
When two sets of identical twins with identical names are shipwrecked as infants their father can save only one of each set. Years later, one Antipholus and one Dromio arrive in Ephesus only to find that everyone there seems a little odd...
In association with acclaimed theatre company Told by an Idiot, and directed by Paul Hunter, The Comedy of Errors returns for a limited number of performances. |
