Eleanor Rhode

Interview: 'Love Makes Every Character a Fool': Andrew Richardson on RSC's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by Kat Mokrynski - Jan 16, 2025

The RSC’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has transferred from Stratford-upon-Avon to the Barbican Centre for the winter. Starring Mathew Baynton as Bottom, the Shakespeare comedy tells the tale of four young lovers from Athens who escape into a magical forest where they come face-to-face with the fairy world.

Video: RSC's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in Rehearsal in London
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 23, 2024

The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run at the Barbican beginning next month. Check out footage from inside the rehearsal room in the video here!

Cast Set For The RSC'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by Stephi Wild - Nov 5, 2024

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the full cast for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Learn more about who is starring in the show and find out how to get tickets here!

Full Cast Set For The RSC's TWELFTH NIGHT
by Stephi Wild - Oct 24, 2024

Full casting has been announced for the RSC's upcoming production of Twelfth Night, which runs at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon between Thursday 5 December 2024 and Saturday 18 January 2025, with a press performance on Thursday 12 December, 7pm.

Full Cast Set For THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA at the Barbican
by Stephi Wild - Sep 4, 2024

The RSC and Wise Children have announced full casting for Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. Adapted for the stage by Wise Children’s Artistic Director Emma Rice, with Kureishi, this critically acclaimed co-production runs at the Barbican in London from 22 October – 16 November, with an opening night on Tuesday 29 October. 

THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA and More Set For RSC's Winter Season at the Barbican
by Stephi Wild - Jun 11, 2024

Alongside one world premiere, three new Shakespeare productions and a major revival going on sale at Stratford, RSC Co-Artistic Directors, Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey, have announced their first Winter season at the Barbican, which sees two critically acclaimed productions transfer from Stratford-upon-Avon.

Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - Feb 15, 2024

Eleanor Rhode directs a modern version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starring Mathew Baynton of Horrible Histories and Ghosts fame as Bottom, the fool who becomes one of several victims of fairy mischief. But, in a delightful twist, the star of the show is Puck, who was played by Premi Tamang due to the indisposition of Rosie Sheehy.

Full Cast Revealed for RSC's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Dec 6, 2023

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced casting for its forthcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between Tuesday 30 January and Saturday 30 March 2024.  

Mathew Baynton to Play Bottom in the RSC's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 29, 2023

Mathew Baynton, co-creator of Ghosts, is set to play Bottom in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Erica Whyman Announces Final Programme with RSC
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Jun 1, 2023

Erica Whyman has announced details of her final season of work as Acting Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) ahead of her stepping down this month. 

Guest Blog: Magic Consultant John Bulleid On THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT
by Guest Author - Sep 21, 2021

Theatre is the purest form of magic. Heightened with anticipation, we step into a darkened space with a sense of wonder and fascination unmatched anywhere else.

BWW Review: ONCE UPON A TIME IN NAZI OCCUPIED TUNISIA, Almeida Theatre
by Gary Naylor - Aug 27, 2021

Set in Tunisia in 1942, this new play sparkles with wit, but its exploration of the undercurrent of antisemitism that flows through even the most cosmopolitan of societies tells us much about today.

Full Cast Announced for World Premiere of ONCE UPON A TIME IN NAZI OCCUPIED TUNISIA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 24, 2021

The Almeida Theatre has announced the full cast for the world premiere of Josh Azouz’s Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia. Eleanor Rhode directs Adrian Edmondson, Laura Hanna, Ethan Kai, Pierro Niel-Mee, Yasmin Paige and Daniel Rainford in the production which runs from Saturday 21 August – Saturday 18 September.

Almeida Theatre Announces New Season For 2021
by Stephi Wild - May 21, 2021

Shows will include and breathe..., Hymn, Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Spring Awakening, and The Key Workers Cycle.

New Company Burn Bright Launches For Women in the Creative Industry
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2020

With plays by writers who identify as women still struggling to breakout on the larger stages, writers Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley have come together to launch Burn Bright, a new not-for-profit organisation driving positive change for the next generation of women in the creative industry.

BWW Interview: Katherine Pearce Talks THE WHIP
by Rona Kelly - Jan 31, 2020

Actress Katherine Pearce makes her Royal Shakespeare Company debut this season, featuring in both King John and The Whip, a new play by Juliet Gilkes Romero.

ROMEO & JULIET, MACBETH and More to Be Presented in Shakespeare's Globe Summer Season; Full Season Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 23, 2020

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the summer season 2020 will include Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Antony & Cleopatra, a two-day event 'Globe 4 Globe: Shakespeare and Climate Emergency', a symposium 'Shakespeare and Race', a Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of Macbeth with 20,000 free tickets to school children, the return of family festival 'Telling Tales', and a new dramatisation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by our resident writers.

RSC Announces Casting For THE WHIP
by Stephi Wild - Dec 5, 2019

As the 19th Century dawns, politicians of all political persuasions gather in London to abolish the slave trade once and for all. But will the price of freedom turn out to be a multi-billion pound pay off to the slave owners, even though such a bailout could drive the country into economic and political ruin?

BWW Interview: Eleanor Rhode Talks KING JOHN
by Rona Kelly - Oct 15, 2019

This Autumn, the Royal Shakespeare Company stages a story of a nation in turmoil: King John. The timeliness of this play is not lost on director Eleanor Rhode or the company, with the news 'informing [their] conversation pretty much every day as [they] make the show'.

BWW Review: KING JOHN, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
by Gary Naylor - Sep 28, 2019

King John's themes are horribly present in today's febrile political climate making it exactly the right time to revive one on Shakespeare's less performed plays.