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Event at Shakespeare’s Birthplace

Posted in Shakespeare, Uncategorized on August 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »

We thought you would be interested in a forthcoming fundraising event taking place at Shakespeare’ Birthplace,  sounds like a lovely way to spend an evening.

Shakespeare’s World in Wine

Shakespeare’s World in Wine
Friday 16 November, 7.30pm, The Shakespeare Centre

Join us on a light hearted and entertaining journey through Shakespeare’s most famous speeches accompanied by wine tastings and canapés. Led by renowned wine expert Alastair MacBrayne and Shakespearian Paul Edmondson you will be entertained with witticisms, banter and performances from our resident acting company Shakespeare Aloud! Professor Stanley Wells has also promised to make a cameo appearance.

£20 per person. Or special offer when booking a table: £144 for a table of 8 or £180 for a table of 10.

Money raised from this fundraising event will go towards supporting the work of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Booking is essential. To book your place please phone Jessica Hill on 01789 204016, email fundraising@shakespeare.org.uk or call into the Shakespeare Centre on Henley Street.

 

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New Friends events for your diary

Posted in RSC Friends Events, RSC Friends Events - London, RSC Friends Events - Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare, What's On on July 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »

If you are an RSC Friend you will have recently received either a letter or email detailing the below events. We hope you can join us for one.

Julius Caesar Q&A
Saturday 18 August, 11am
Noël Coward Theatre, London

The current production of Julius Caesar, set in modern day Africa, has won many accolades including “an outstanding contribution to the World Shakespeare Festival’’ and “a superb cast conveying the verse with clarity and passion”. We are delighted that we have been able to arrange for a Q&A session with Adjoa Andoh, Ray Fearon, Jeffery Kissoon and Cyril Nri whilst the production is in London.  Why not take advantage of the return to normality after the Olympics and join us to talk to the cast about what it’s like to be a part of this unique production.

Tickets £5 Friends/£6 Guests/ under 18s £2.50. Booking closes on 16 August at 11am.

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Bruce Mackinnon and Felix Hayes
Friday 5 October, 4pm
Holy Trinity Parish Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Just before the close of the season we have not one, but two actors from the ‘Shipwreck Trilogy’ coming to speak to us.  Felix Hayes plays Fabian in Twelfth Night and Trinculo in

The Tempest.  Bruce Mackinnon is Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night and Stephano in The Tempest.   Together they play the extremely funny, lovable Dromio twins in The Comedy of Errors.  Come and see if you can tell them apart!

Tickets £5 Friends/£6 Guests/Under 18s £2.50, booking closes on 3 October at 4pm.

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We look forward to welcoming you to a Friends’ event soon.

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Your invitation to This Poor Trash of Venice

Posted in News, RSC Events, Shakespeare, What's On on June 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Dear Friend of the RSC,

You are warmly invited to our annual showcase of work by schools involved in The Learning and Performance Network (LPN). The production is called This Poor Trash of Venice and takes place on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 July in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. On 3 July six schools will be performing The Merchant of Venice and on 4 July a different six schools will be performing Othello. The cast of 200 young people ranges from six to eighteen years old. Tickets for both performances are just £3.

The LPN was launched in 2006 and to date 400 schools from across England have been involved. The LPN seeks to work with schools in areas of relatively high social and economic deprivation and gives students the opportunity to approach Shakespeare as actors do in a rehearsal room, using active and exploratory methods. Working in this way, students tell us that they find Shakespeare more relevant, more exciting and that it increases their enjoyment of school.

The schools performing this year are from Weston-super-Mare to County Durham and have been working with us over the past two years.

We would be delighted if you could join us for what will be a wonderful celebration of young people claiming Shakespeare as their own.

Tickets are available from the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1110, 10am-6pm, Monday – Saturday. The performance will begin at 2.45pm and finish at approximately 5pm.

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Events at Shakespeare’s Birthplace

Posted in News, Shakespeare, What's On on June 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Shakespeare's Birthplace logo

Inspired by Shakespeare – Wednesday evenings across the county

Many writers, artists and filmmakers have been inspired by Shakespeare and now you can be too.

This series of evening classes taught by a variety of expert practitioners lets you try your hand at creative writing, calligraphy and filmmaking, learning about those who have been inspired by Shakespeare, discovering some basic techniques and being invited to have a go for yourselves.  Designed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust this course is available at 3 venues, Stratford-Upon-Avon (Stratford Business Services) Hinckley (north Warwickshire and Hinckley college) and Leamington Spa (Warwickshire College) on Wednesday evenings from 7-9pm starting Wednesday September 19th. Course costs £110 for 10 weeks.

Call 01789 207131 to book a place

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Bram Stoker Centenary Conference

Posted in News, Shakespeare, Uncategorized, tagged , on March 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Bram Stoker Centenary Conference

To mark 100 years since Bram Stoker’s death a group of Stoker enthusiasts, including some Shakespeare Birthplace Trust staff, are inviting you to join them in celebrating his life, his works and his Shakespearian connections.

They invite you to join them for a 6 course meal on Saturday 14 April inspired by menus held in the collection followed by a conference on Sunday 15 April with guest speakers Dacre Stoker, Elizabeth Miller and Michael Kilgarriff.  All proceeds raised from this event will help support vital work to catalogue and digitise the Bram Stoker collection cared for by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

If you would like to attend either the dinner, the conference or both please email stoker100@virginmedia.com or call 01789 204016.

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Celebrations continue

Posted in RSC Events, Shakespeare, What's On, tagged , , , , , , , on November 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This weekend join us in Stratford-upon-Avon for three more events celebrating the history of the RSC.

Howard Davies: The Place, The Other Place and The Warehouse
Saturday 26 November, 10am
Swan Theatre, £8
Howard Davies, director of productions including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, was the catalyst for big changes at the RSC. The (Donmar) Warehouse first opened in 1976, modelled on The Other Place in Stratford, under his visionary leadership. The Warehouse played host to some of the most important and urgent new plays of the 1970s and 1980s. Howard will be talking about his work to Chris Campbell, Literary Manager of the Royal Court Theatre.

A Celebration: Educating Rita
Sunday 27 November, 11.30am
Swan Theatre, £15
Educating Rita was commisioned and premiered by the RSC in 1980 and went on to becoming one of the nation’s best loved stories. Join Willy Russell as he talks to Company Dramaturg Jeanie O’Hare about how Educating Rita made it onto the stage at the RSC.

In Conversation: Adrian Noble
Sunday 27 November, 7.30pm
Swan Theatre, £15
Adrian Noble, RSC Artistic Director 1990-2003, talks to Michael Attenborough about his time with the Company. Adrian’s productions for the Company include The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Plantagenets and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, later turned into a successful film.

To book, call the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1110 or book online at www.rsc.org.uk/rsc50events

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Celebrate the Swan Theatre

Posted in RSC Events, Shakespeare, What's On on August 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Celebrate the Swan Theatre

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

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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

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