Royal Shakespeare Company Announces Winter 2012-2013 Programming

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced its winter 2012-2013 season for its theaters in Stratford-upon-Avon.

There will be two productions In the company’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre, including Tamsin Oglesby’s new adaptation of Russell Hoban’s children’s story, The Mouse and His Child, which centers on two mice that are forced to embark on a dangerous quest. Paul Hunter will direct the production, which will run in repertory with a new staging of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.

In addition, the RSC will offer three productions in The Swan Theatre including The Orphan of Zhao, a 4th century BC Chinese play, that will be directed by Gregory Doran. Also on the schedule are a production of Alexander Pushkin’s Boris Godunov, adapted by Adrian Mitchell, and directed by Michael Boyd; and Mark Ravenhill’s new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, to be directed by Roxana Silbert.

The RSC has also announced that it will present Mike Poulton and Sho Kawai’s Anjin: The English Samurai, which revisits the story of William Adams, the first Englishman in Japan. The piece, directed by Doran, will play London’s Sadler’s Wells in January 2013. The company has also announced plans to tour a 70-minute production of King Lear, adapted and directed by Tim Crouch, for young people during the 2012-2013 season.

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