In the week that the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) new season opens in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Company today released further details of its 2022 activity including three new Shakespeare productions that speak directly to our world today, the launch of TikTok Tickets – a major new partnership with the global entertainment platform TikTok to inspire the next generation of theatre audiences wherever they live, plus details of how people can participate in 37 Plays: a nationwide search to write the stories of today co-created in partnership with the RSC’s network of 12 regional theatre partners, over 200 Associate Schools and freelance artists who together form the Royal Shakespeare Community.
The Company also renewed its commitment to ensuring every young person has access to an arts-rich education and will create a new Shakespeare curriculum available free for all to use from 2023. Evidence clearly shows the impact that an arts-rich education has on young people to support their development, accelerate language acquisition, improve attitudes to learning and their life chances.
Arthur Hughes will play the title role in a new production of Richard III directed by Gregory Doran in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Blanche McIntyre to direct All’s Well That Ends Well for the social media generation in a new production exploring themes of romantic fantasy, toxic masculinity and consent.
First Encounters with Shakespeare: Twelfth Night a new production directed by Robin Belfield created in partnership with young people from communities across the English regions to tour to UK theatres and schools including Stratford-upon-Avon.
TikTok Tickets: a new initiative to open access to high quality theatre for young people targeted particularly at those living in communities facing structural disadvantage. The £10 TikTok Tickets are available for all RSC productions for any 14 -25 year olds, students and state schools.
37 Plays: Writing the stories of our nation: Details released for adults and young people to participate in a major new national playwriting project to capture the stories of today.
Erica Whyman, Acting Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company said:
‘I am delighted to announce this bold creative programme, spanning a groundbreakingly ambitious partnership project to find the UK’s plays of today, investment in our collaborations with young people and the very proud completion of the canon of Shakespeare’s plays we began in 2012.
‘Across ten unforgettable years, our commitments to partnership, to inclusion and justice, and to innovative ways to share our work have deepened and evolved. All three are demonstrated in this announcement, and our new collaboration with TikTok perfectly illustrates our determination to entice new audiences. I’m delighted to welcome back the visionary Blanche McIntyre for All’s Well That Ends Well, and thrilled by the pairing of Arthur Hughes and Gregory Doran who together will breathe new life into Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Richard III’.
More details can be found here
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