The Royal Shakespeare Company has just unveiled its upcoming 1996-1997 Season.
The RSC's new season, under artistic director Adrian Noble, will be the first one where the company will abandon London for six months, instead concentrating on productions at its home base at Stratford-Upon-Avon and touring the regions.
Highlights of the season include Alex Jennings, recently introduced to American audiences in the touring and Broadway productions of the RSC A Midsummer Night's Dream, in starring roles in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing. Steven Pimlott's profile, already high following his recent posting to the company directorship of this year's Stratford April-October season, is set rise further and those productions transfer to London in the autumn.
Meanwhile at Stratford's The Other Place, for the first time all the presentations will share a common theme. Director Katie Mitchell will program a season exploring the culture of the medieval period. Events will include theatrical productions and music.
Following is the 1996-1997 Royal Shakespeare Company's Season. Stratford-upon-Avon
- Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
directed by Michael Boyd
starring Alex Jennings - The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare
directed by Ian Judge - Cymbeline
by William Shakespeare
directed by Adrian Noble - Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Matthew Warchus
starring Alex Jennings - Henry VIII
by William Shakespeare
directed by Greg Doran - Little Eyolf
by Henrik Ibsen
directed by Adrian Noble - Spanish Tragedy
by Thomas Kyd
London Season
- As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
directed by Steven Pimlott
starring Niamh Cusack - In The Company Of Men
by Edward Bond
directed by Edward Bond - Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
directed by Tim Albery
starring Roger Allam - Troilus and Cressida
by William Shakespeare
directed by Ian Judge
starring Joseph Fiennes (brother of Ralph) and Victoria Hamilton - The Herbal Bed
by Peter Whelan
directed by Michael Attenborough
starring Teresa Banham and Joseph Fiennes - Learned Ladies
by Moliere
directed by Steven Pimlott - The White Devil
by John Webster
directed by Gale Evans
starring Richard McCabe and Jane Gurnett - Three Hours After Marriage
by John Gay
directed by Richard Cottrell
starring Clive Francis and Jane Gurnett - The General From America
by Richard Nelson
directed by Howard Davies
starring Corin Redgrave
