#Royal Shakespeare Company

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Sweet prince Hamlet 👑🗡️💀

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Source: guards! read me my bedtime yaoi – @hollowslantern on Tumblr

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Eve Best and Charles Edwards spar as Beatrice and Benedick in the Royal Shakespeare Companies production of Much Ado About Nothing in 2011.

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

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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.

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My little collection of photos from when I finally visited THE bench in St James’ Park (please excuse the poor quality, phone camera angles are not my friend!).

These were taken the day after the S3 finale got announced, so it felt quite poignant to me. It’s somewhere I’ve been meaning to visit for ages, and to get to see it at last was so special. It was almost impossible to capture the sheer number of messages and quotes that had been left - we are truly an incredible fandom! Although I heard recently that the bench has now been sanded down, the heart lock is still very much there, and I’m sure it won’t take long for new text to be added ❤️

I saw David Tennant in Macbeth the night before these pics were taken (it was phenomenal!) and then was lucky enough to see him again the next day doing a talk on Shakespeare with Greg Doran. To top it off, I got to meet many fellow GO fans while I was there as well, including @phoen1xr0se who was very lovely!

It was an incredible 48hrs to say the least 🥰

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

Photo by Reg Wilson [x]

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

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Lovely video from Press Night

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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.

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A bit more of Much Ado About Nothing with Eve Best and Charles Edwards.

[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.

[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.”

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