#Royal Shakespeare Company

[nipuni]

Sweet prince Hamlet 👑🗡️💀

[bodhrancomedy]

Working for the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) has its perks 😃

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The hot new thing on Tumblr was the 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear with Ian McKellen, so every meme and reaction image was just screencaps from King Lear.

[catullus101]

David Tennant as Touchstone in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It (1996).

Photo by Reg Wilson [x]

[sneakertin]

here have some of my favorite pictures of david tennant as richard ii to make your day better :)

[billdecker]

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM | BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MATHEW BAYNTON

[blackbonnet-ruined-my-life]

Let’s do a traditional version of Romeo and Juliet.

A man and a man in drag making out on stage.

The way Shakespeare intended.

[wadewilsonhowlett]

[lifeandtimesoftrying]

THERE IS A RECORDING OF AS YOU LIKE IT (1996)

Breaking news!! Extra, extra, read all about it!!! You may have been pictures of David Tennant such as this one:

but upon trying to find a way to watch the production this is from, been told that there's no way to do so. And this is partially true: there is no copy of this floating around on the internet, and no DVDs have been released. BUT! Not all is lost! @raining-stars-somewhere-else and I have been investigating, and there is a recording of As You Like It (1996) housed in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. According to their website, there is a VHS tape and two DVDs (though one of them stops playing halfway through). There are no digital copies of available to the public, but you can go to their reading room for free and access their archives that way. Neither my fellow detective nor I have ever been, so we're not sure exactly how it works, but we believe that you can watch the archived video recordings so long as you're in-person. Unfortunately, we cannot get there ourselves, but we're sharing what we know in hopes that someone who reads this can do some on-the-ground reconnaissance. According to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's website, the reading room is located "on Guild Street to the rear of the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6QW" in England. If you find anything new, please let us know, and if you want to remain anonymous we can do that. Good luck everyone!!!

relevant links:

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's home page

Archive page for the recording

Information about the Reading Room

RSC's page for the performance (this is where the picture is from, and has information about the cast and crew)

[shakespearenews]

The son of Bangladeshi immigrants, Zaman was first seduced by the theatre’s siren song as a teenager. “I know exactly when it happened. I was 15 or 16, and my school took a group of us to a show in Newcastle, which was an international telling of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was an RSC production, with an entire company of actors from the Asian continent, across East and South Asia, all speaking different languages. The whole play was done in every language they spoke but English, and it was so beautiful and physical. I was blown away by it, and seeing people who looked like me on stage.”

[ingravinoveritas]

David looking adorable at the press night for Pericles at the RSC last night.

[bodhrancomedy]

So the latest project I’m working on with the Royal Shakespeare Company (!!!!!!) has essentially boiled down to:

we’ve put six of you Gen Z in a room together. The only request is what you make is serialised content vaguely relating to the play we assigned you. Go nuts.

And I think more big theatre companies should do this.

I think this is how we save theatre.

[david-tennant-in-chairs]

A different kind of April Fool...

David as Touchstone in As You Like It (1996-97)

More images in this fascinating article of DT recounting this turning point in his career

[sneakertin]

can we PLEASE talk about how young david tennant as romeo is THE MOST theatre aesthetic ever i am begging you

[diana-andraste]

Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade, 1967, 1986

[holographic-abstract]

Re: Salome 2017 Royal Shakespeare Company

I reached out to the RSC asking if they had a recording of this play and received this response:

"We don’t have a formal recording of that show, but we do have a fixed camera archive recording, which can be viewed at the reading room in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, if you are based in the UK? They hold our archive for us.

To book a viewing, you need to contact the Birthplace. More information can be found on this page: https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit/plan-your-visit/reading-room/ The item you wish to view is this: https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/archive/arch-183747"