Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare company is one of the UK’s foremost theatre companies, based in Stratford-upon-Avon. As well as the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the RSC produces new work from living artists and develops creative links with theatre-makers from around the world, working to inspire a lifelong love of William Shakespeare in young people. Catch some of Shakespeare’s classics, or delve deeper into some of the more obscure plays, in our broadcasts Live from Stratford-upon-Avon.
Royla Shakespeare Company: King John
20200429
A MAD WORLD OF MAD KINGS, TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF DISASTER Richard the Lionheart is dead. His brother John is King of England. Threatened from all sides by Europe, the English noblemen and even h...
- Wed 29 Apr
- 200 minutes
Royal Shakespeare Company: The Winter’s Tale
20200610
Leontes rips his family apart with his jealousy but grief opens his heart. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late? Set across a 16-year span from Mad Men to the moon landings, th...
- Wed 10 Jun
- 210 minutes
Royal Shakespeare Company: The Comedy of Errors
20200715
A man arrives in a strange town only to find that everyone knows his name, but thinks he’s someone else. “So I to find a mother and a brother In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself” How do any ...
- Wed 15 Jul
- 210 minutes
Royal Shakespeare Company: Pericles
20200923
Shakespeare’s touching and hopeful tale of loss and reconciliation located in a familiar world of precarious journeys. Forced to flee his native land, Pericles becomes a refugee at the mercy of sea...
- Wed 23 Sep
- 210 minutes
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