RSC Are BAM Bound, Again
Date: 29 December 1999
The Royal Shakespeare Company have announced plans for another residency at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music. Running from May 10-27 as part of BAM's 2000 Spring Season, the RSC will showcase three productions from its current London repertoire.
These include the current production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Michael Boyd (in rep to February 17), which was acclaimed by The Guardian's Michael Billington as the 'best Dream since Peter Brook's'; RSC Artistic Director Adrian Noble's staging of the rarely seen T.S. Eliot verse drama The Family Reunion (opening at the Barbican Pit studio theatre on February 29, following previews from February 23, and running in rep to April 4); and Gale Edwards's production of Schiller's Don Carlos (opening at the Barbican Pit on January 18, following previews from January 13, and runnin in rep to April 6).
The RSC, which is one of the few international theatre companies to maintain a traditional repertoire system in which classical actors perform a number of different roles simultaneously within a single season, will bring an ensesmble of more than fifty artists to New York, including such celebrated actors as Margaret Tyzack (seen opposite Maggie Smith in the London and New York productions of Peter Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage), John Woodvine and Josette Simon.
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