Lucy Bailey, David Edgar, Gisli Örn Gardarsson, et al. Set for RSC’s Winter Season

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced its schedule of winter programming.

The season will include David Farr’s The Heart of Robin Hood, to run November 18-January 7 in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Gisli Örn Gardarsson will direct this new look at the legend of the man who steals from the rich, but fails to share with the poor, leaving it to Marion to convince him to listen to his heart if they are to save the country from the wicked King John who plots to steal his brother’s crown. Also in this theater will be a new production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, to run January 19 -February 18, before embarking on a six week national UK tour.

In the Swan Theatre, the RSC will produce David Edgar’s Written on the Heart (October 27 – March 10), which examines the genesis of the King’s James Bible. Greg Doran will direct. Also in the venue will be Roxana Silbert’s staging of Shakespeare’s dark romance, Measure for Measure (November 17 – March 10), and Helen Edmundson’s The Heresy of Love (February 2 – March 9), which is based on the life of House of Desires writer Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and will be directed by Nancy Meckler.

In addition, the theater will offer a three performance run of Song of Songs in February. This piece, devised by Struan Leslie and created by the company, will be based on the Song of Solomon in the King James Bible. There will also be a U.K. Young People’s Shakespeare school tour of Hamlet, adapted by Tarell Alvin McCraney and Bijan Shebani, to launch in September.

The company’s programming will be rounded out with the company’s ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations, including a celebration of the RSC’s musicals, past and present; Howard Davies in conversation about the creation of the Warehouse; a screening of Peter Brook’s production of US; and a celebration of Nicholas Nickleby.

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