Royal Court Theatre Announces Lineup For 2009 to Include Richardson, Rylance and More

The Royal Court's Spring/Summer 2009 season will feature Clare Higgins, Jane Horrocks and Miranda Richardson in a season of work by actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, who will also appear in a new play of his own - his first in ten years - directed by his long-term collaborator Andre Gregory.

In addition to the Shawn series, Mark Rylance will play the lead in a new play by Jez Butterworth. Award-winning young playwright Polly Stenham will return to the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, scene of her triumphant debut That Face, with a new play.

The Royal Court will be the first theatre to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the Off the Wall season, which will include new plays by Mark Ravenhill (starring twin brothers Harry Treadaway and Luke Treadaway) and Marius von Mayenburg, and a week of readings of new German plays. David Hare will direct a reading of a play by Walalce Shawn.

Ruth Jones, BAFTA-award winning writer of BBC's Gavin and Stacey, will be patron of the Royal Court's Young Writers Festival 2009.

The Royal Court Theatre is Britain's leading national company dedicated to new work by innovative writers from the UK and around the world.

The Royal Court receives and considers an extraordinary quantity of new work and each year it presents an ambitious programme in its two venues at Sloane Square in London. In recent years the Royal Court has also staged productions in New York, Sydney, Brussels, Toronto and Dublin.

The Royal Court facilitates international work at a grass roots level, developing exchanges which bring young writers to Britain and sending British writers, actors and directors to work with artists around the world. The Royal Court Young Writers Programme also works to develop new voices with their bi-annual Festival and year-round development work for writers under the age of 26.

For more information including a detailed schedule and to puchase tickets please visit www.royalcourttheatre.com.

Photo of Mark Rylance by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

 

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