RSC Friends

Celebrate the Swan Theatre

Join us next Saturday for two events revelling in the playwrights who adore the Swan Theare – past and present

The Swan and the Lost Library of Jacobethan Plays
Sunday 21 August, 11.30am
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran hosts a mischievous reunion of the writers who were Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Fletcherwill be brought to life by actors Oliver Rix, Alex Hassell, Michael Grady-Hall, Simeon Moore and Felix Hayes.

In addition to the writers, a guest appearance by Antony Sher, who will join Gregory to discuss an actor’s perspective on these writers, having performed in plays by each of them.

Tickets £10

Play Reading: Singer
Sunday 21 August, 2pm
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Rejoin us in the Swan Theatre at 2pm for a script-in-hand reading of Peter Flannery’s heartbreaking play Singer, directed by Peter himself.

Written for the Swan stage and first produced there by the RSC in 1989, Singer tells the story of Peter Singer and his journey from racketeer in Auschwitz to the high society of London.

The play brilliantly gives the definitive master-class in how to take dramatic techniques from Shakespeare and make them your own on the Swan Stage.

Wild humour, graceful language with sharp and unbearable heartbreak.

Cast includes: Marcus Cunningham, Andrew French, Miranda Stewart, Ellie Taylor