RSC Come To The West End

The RSC come to London in December with Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran's production of Twelfth Night at the Duke of York's Theatre followed in February by Dunsinane by David Greig and The Gods Weep by Dennis Kelly at Hampstead Theatre.

Twelfth Night premieres in Stratford-upon-Avon in October with Richard Wilson making his RSC debut as Malvolio. It will then play a straight 10-week run at the Duke of York's theatre on St Martin's Lane from December 19 2009 to February 27 2010.

The cast includes Sam Alexander (Sebastian), Nancy Carroll (Viola), James Fleet (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Alexandra Gilbreath (Olivia), Richard McCabe (Sir Toby Belch), Pamela Nomvete (Maria), Simeon Moore (Antonio), Jo Stone-Fewings (Orsino) and Miltos Yerolemou (Feste).

Doran will also direct a new stage version of Malory's Morte D'Arthur in The Courtyard Theatre with the RSC's current long ensemble in June 2010.  His recent production of Hamlet, with David Tennant in the title role, is to be broadcast in a TV version on BBC 2 later this year and will then be available for sale on DVD.

David Greig's Dunsinane is a vision of one man's desire to restore peace in a country ravaged by war.

Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken rules of this unfamiliar country. This is Scotland in the eleventh century at the height of the fight for succession of the Scottish throne.

Dennis Kelly's The Gods Weep focuses on the life of a CEO whose global business may have grown to a scale that is uncontainable.

Colm has taken a lifetime to build his empire. With brutal rigour he has shaped the world around him in his own image. As time moves on, his decision-making abilities increasingly fail him and the world he has created begins to fracture. The power struggle that ensues reveals the corruption and unstoppable forces at work in a world where corporate greed and national security frighteningly overlap.

 

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