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Bristol's Tobacco Factory Returns Bard to BarbicanDate: 6 February 2004
The RSC may have abandoned it as its London home, but another Shakespearean company will soon be taking up residency at the Barbican Centre. The Bristol-based Tobacco Factory – a commercial theatre company which has been presenting two Shakespeare plays a year since its launch in 2000 – will transfer a new pair of productions for a five-week season at the City of London arts centre this autumn.
Tobacco Factory’s stagings of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth (pictured) and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s Jacobean tragic-comedy about a desperate heiress, The Changeling, will run in repertory at the Barbican Pit from 25 September to 23 October 2004.
The productions run first in Bristol, where Macbeth opens tonight (6 February 2004) and continues to 22 April, followed by The Changeling, running from 19 March to 24 April 2004 (preview 18 March).
Both plays are directed by Tobacco Factory artistic director Andrew Hilton, a former associate director at London’s Mermaid Theatre, who has himself been an actor for 30 years, as well as teaching at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Hilton’s previous productions for the Tobacco Factory have included King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida and As You Like It.
- by Terri Paddock
