All the World’s a Stage: RSC Announces 2003 Festival Season

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that its 2003 Festival Season will feature six new productions of the Bard’s plays, in addition to works by Ibsen and Fletcher.

The Shakespeare plays to be featured in the festival are The Taming of the Shrew, directed by RSC associate director Gregory Doran and starring Alexandra Gilbreath and Jasper Britton; Measure for Measure, directed by Sean Holmes and starring Emma Fielding; Richard III, also directed by Holmes and starring Henry Goodman; Titus Andronicus, directed by Bill Alexander, an honorary associate director of the RSC; As You Like It, directed by Gregory Thompson; and Cymbeline, directed by Dominic Cook and starring Emma Fielding.

Also to be performed at the festival are The Tamer Tamed, John Fletcher’s seldom staged sequel to The Taming of the Shrew, in which Gilbreath and Britton will star under Gregory Doran’s direction; and Henrik Ibsen’s Brand, in a translation by Michael Meyer, directed by outgoing RSC artistic director Adrian Noble and starring Ralph Fiennes.

For ticket information, phone the RSC box office at 0870-609-1110 or visit the website www.rsc.org.uk.