Post by Lorannah on Aug 3, 2010 6:20:20 GMT
Time for a quick one before my train.
Not sure if I've just been slow on the ball, but this is the first time I've seen it confirmed that they'll be leaving Julius Caesar behind for the New York run. Interesting choice, my money was on Anthony and Cleopatra.
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“King Lear” and “Antony and Cleopatra,” two Shakespeare plays that are not frequently produced in New York City, will be among the five productions that the Royal Shakespeare Company will mount in next summer’s Lincoln Center Festival, the organizers announced on Monday.
The other plays will be “As You Like It,” “Romeo and Juliet” (directed by Rupert Goold of “Enron”) and “The Winter’s Tale.”
Actors in the company’s 44-member ensemble will play various roles in the productions, with 7 to 10 performances scheduled for each show. The entire run, July 6-Aug. 14, will be held at the Park Avenue Armory on a thrust stage (with seats on three sides) that the Royal Shakespeare Company is now building to the specifications of its Courtyard Theater in Stratford-Upon-Avon. All five plays are now running at the company’s home base in England.
Among the lead actors will be the veteran company member Greg Hicks — playing two mad kings, Lear and Leontes in “Winter’s Tale” — and Kathryn Hunter, who will play the Fool in “Lear” and Cleopatra.
Other interesting match-ups of actor to role include Forbes Masson as men who have seen it all: Jaques in “As You Like It” and the Friar in “Romeo and Juliet”; Darrell D’Silva as a series of important companions: Antony, Kent (“Lear”) and Leontes’s fellow royal Polixenes (“Winter’s Tale”); and Samantha Young will play two wrong’d daughters, Cordelia (“Lear”) and Perdita (“Winter’s Tale”).
The timing for ticket sales to the public will be announced this fall. Lincoln Center Festival, the Armory,and Ohio State University — which collaborates on education programs with the Royal Shakespeare Company — are providing financial support for the six-week residency in New York.
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/royal-shakespeare-company-announces-new-york-lineup/
Not sure if I've just been slow on the ball, but this is the first time I've seen it confirmed that they'll be leaving Julius Caesar behind for the New York run. Interesting choice, my money was on Anthony and Cleopatra.
*****
“King Lear” and “Antony and Cleopatra,” two Shakespeare plays that are not frequently produced in New York City, will be among the five productions that the Royal Shakespeare Company will mount in next summer’s Lincoln Center Festival, the organizers announced on Monday.
The other plays will be “As You Like It,” “Romeo and Juliet” (directed by Rupert Goold of “Enron”) and “The Winter’s Tale.”
Actors in the company’s 44-member ensemble will play various roles in the productions, with 7 to 10 performances scheduled for each show. The entire run, July 6-Aug. 14, will be held at the Park Avenue Armory on a thrust stage (with seats on three sides) that the Royal Shakespeare Company is now building to the specifications of its Courtyard Theater in Stratford-Upon-Avon. All five plays are now running at the company’s home base in England.
Among the lead actors will be the veteran company member Greg Hicks — playing two mad kings, Lear and Leontes in “Winter’s Tale” — and Kathryn Hunter, who will play the Fool in “Lear” and Cleopatra.
Other interesting match-ups of actor to role include Forbes Masson as men who have seen it all: Jaques in “As You Like It” and the Friar in “Romeo and Juliet”; Darrell D’Silva as a series of important companions: Antony, Kent (“Lear”) and Leontes’s fellow royal Polixenes (“Winter’s Tale”); and Samantha Young will play two wrong’d daughters, Cordelia (“Lear”) and Perdita (“Winter’s Tale”).
The timing for ticket sales to the public will be announced this fall. Lincoln Center Festival, the Armory,and Ohio State University — which collaborates on education programs with the Royal Shakespeare Company — are providing financial support for the six-week residency in New York.
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/royal-shakespeare-company-announces-new-york-lineup/
