Theatre News: RSC to re-open with Tales for Winter

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Winter Shakespeare

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have announced their return with a Winter 2020 programme set to run in December.

Versions of shows from the Tales for Winter will be available to stream from the 5th until the 12th of December.

The opening weekend will see David Walliams reading from his book The Boy in the Dress, a year on from the story opening as a musical performed in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST).

Another performance to be broadcast online will be Troy Story. RSC actors will retell the history of the Trojan War in five parts over the course of Saturday the 12th December. It is based on Greek classics The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid.

On the 19th December, live audiences will hopefully return to the RST for the concluding weekend of the programme. Two hundred socially distanced audience members will be able to watch Festival Tales – a weekend of “music and reflection’.”

RSC artistic director Gregory Doran said “we’re delighted to be opening our doors to reduced-capacity audiences to share in the unique magic that is live theatre.” 

Tickets are available now for live and online performances. 

Words by Laura Mehers.


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