Edward Hall Quits RSC Over Rehearsal Shortage???

According to newspaper reprots today, director Edward Hall, son of Sir Peter, has resigned from his current production for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Apparently, for Hall's next RSC production - Edward III, due to open at the Swan Theatre in Stratford next month - the director was given just three weeks to rehearse, rather than the usual six. As part of the RSC's new tri-company artistic model (see News, 17 Dec 01), the Shakespeare play is to be performed by a 28-strong company along with four other Elizabethan and Jacobean works. Another of that season's directors - David Hunt, due to direct Philip Massinger's The Roman Actor - has also been forced to leave because of ill health. Hall's previous RSC productions have included Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry VI, Julius Caesar and the epic Greek tragedy, Tantalus, which he co-directed with his father, himself the founding artistic director of the RSC. Edward Hall is staying busy elsewhere - his production of Rose Rage, care of his all-male Propeller company, opens at the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket in June.

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