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Shakespeare: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet); Marcus Griffiths (Laertes); Cyril Nri (Polonius); Natalie Simpson (Ophelia); Clarence Smith (Claudius); Tanya Moodie (Gertrude); Hiran Abeysekera (Horatio); James Clooney (Rosencrantz); Bethan Cullinane (Guildenstern); Theo Ogundipe (Marcellus/Lucianus/Fortinbras); Ewart James Walters (Ghost/Gravedigger); Eke Chukwu (Voltemand);
"It is an utterly engaging performance by Paapa Essiedu." (The Times ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Henry IV Part I & II Special Edition (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Jasper Britton (King Henry IV (I & II)); Antony Sher (Sir John Falstaff (I & II)); Alex Hassell (Prince Hal (I & II)); Paola Dionisotti (Mistress Quickly (I & II)); Trevor White (Hotspur (I)); Joshua Richards (Bardolph (I & II)/Owen Glendower (I)); Oliver Ford Davies (Justice Shallow (II)); Jim Hooper (Justice Silence (II)); Martin Bassindale (Peto (I)); Antony Byrne (Pistol (II)); Sam Marks (Ned Poins (I)); Nia Gwynne (Doll Tearsheet (II));
"Shakespeare's two greatest plays have always been a defining experience for RSC directors. Gregory Doran now puts his decisive seal on the company by offering a production that, like last year's Richard II, combines richness of texture with psychological insight. It also contains a major performance from Antony Sher as Falstaff." (The Guardian ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Henry IV Part I (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Jasper Britton (Henry IV); Antony Sher (Falstaff); Alex Hassell (Hal); Trevor White (Hotspur); Sean Chapman (Earl of Northumberland/Earl of Douglas); Youssef Kerkour (Earl of Westmoreland); Elliot Barnes-Worrell (Prince John); Paola Dionisotti (Mistress Quickly); Nicholas Gerard-Martin (Carrier/Sir Michael); Jonny Glynn (Rakewell); Nia Gwynne (Lady Mortimer); Alex Hassell (Prince Hal);
"Shakespeare's two greatest plays have always been a defining experience for RSC directors. Gregory Doran now puts his decisive seal on the company by offering a production that, like last year's Richard II, combines richness of texture with psychological insight. It also contains a major performance from Antony Sher as Falstaff." (The Guardian ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Henry IV Part II (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Jasper Britton (Henry IV); Antony Sher (John Falstaff); Alex Hassell (Prince Hal); Paola Dionisotti (Mistress Quickly); Oliver Ford Davies (Justice Shallow); Jim Hooper (Justice Silence/Gower); Antony Byrne (Rumour/Porter/Pistol); Robert Gilbert (Travers/Sir John Coleville); Nia Gwynne (Doll Tearsheet/Lady Northumberland); Keith Osborne (Archbishop of York); Joshua Richards (Bardolph); Trevor White (Lord Mowbray);
"Shakespeare's two greatest plays have always been a defining experience for RSC directors. Gregory Doran now puts his decisive seal on the company by offering a production that, like last year's Richard II, combines richness of texture with psychological insight. It also contains a major performance from Antony Sher as Falstaff. But, although Sher's is the dominant performance, everything in Doran's production bespeaks long-range planning. Jasper Britton's fine Henry IV is a tormented usurper, first seen prostrate in self-abasing prayer, capable of volcanic violence: his brutal treatment of Trevor White's bolshie Hotspur in the opening scenes explains the ensuing rebellion." (The Guardian ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Alex Hassell (King Henry V); Jane Lapotaire (Queen Isobel); Sarah Parks (Mistress Quickly ); Leigh Quinn (Alice ); Joshua Richards (Bardolph/Fluellen); Simon Thorp (King of France); Anthony Byrne (Pistol); Sean Chapman (Exeter); Oliver Ford Davies (Chorus); Robert Gilbert (Dauphin ); Gregory Doran (Director );
"... the Shakespearean event of the autumn... this is just what the nation ordered." (The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★)
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Andrew Woodall (Julius Caesar); James Corrigan (Mark Antony); Martin Hutson (Cassius); Jon Tarcy (Octavius); Alex Waldmann (Brutus); Patrick Drury (Publius/Cinna the Poet); Hannah Morrish (Portia); Kristin Atherton (Calphurnia); Anthony Ofoegbu (Cicero/Ligarius); David Burnett (Murullus/Trebonius/Pindarus); Marcello Walton (Flavius/Lepidus); Dharmesh Patel (Decius/Messala);
"Everything about this production feels right Martin Hutson's brilliant Cassius... James Corrigan's Mark Antony is a calculating cynic The great virtue of the production is its nuanced portrayal of the divisions among those conspiring against a dictatorial Caesar" (The Guardian ★★★★)