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RSC Barbican Season 2019

26 Oct 19 – 18 Jan 20, Performance times vary

As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure transfer to London after impressing in Stratford-upon-Avon

By Lucy Brooks on 18/10/2019

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As You Like It at the RSC. Photo by Topher McGrillis
As You Like It at the RSC. Photo by Topher McGrillis
RSC Barbican Season 2019 RSC Barbican Season 2019 Lucy Brooks
Londoners can enjoy superlative performances from Stratford-upon-Avon's Royal Shakespeare Company without having to travel to Warwickshire this winter. The RSC Barbican season brings three acclaimed productions from the RSC's summer 2019 season to the Barbican stage. The plays will run in repertoire, with 27 actors each appearing in two of the three productions.


RSC artistic director Gregory Doran describes how the company 'reflects the nation in ways it has never done before' thanks to a 50/50 gender balance and ethnic, geographical and cultural diversity. He also emphasises the importance of 'now' in a season that 'places contemporary audiences at its heart' and 'speaks directly to the present moment'.


All three shows recieved glowing reveiws from Stratford-upon-Avon and offer London audiences an enlightening evening of theatre.


As You Like It

26 October 2019 - 18 January 2020




All the world is a stage as director Kimberley Sykes directs a vibrant production of As You Like It. Puppetry, physical theatre, pastoral comedy and music combine to build the magical Forest of Arden, where exiles in disguise find adventure and romance. Lucy Phelps (Dido, Queen of Carthage, Antony and Cleopatra) plays the banished Rosalind who masquerades as a man, while David Ajao (Othello) plays love-struck Duke Orlando. With a gender-fluid take on casting and an emphasis on playful theatricality, the production captures the heart of Shakespeare's meta-theatrical comedy, offering an enticing world of fantasy and self-discovery.


When As You Like It opened at The RSC in the summer, reviewers enthused about 'shining' and 'sublime' performances in an inventive and visually spectacular production.

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The Taming of the Shrew

5 November 2019 – 18 January 2020




The Taming of the Shrew is probably Shakespeare's most problematic play. The story of wily Petruchio 'taming' sharp-tongued Katherine to win a bet feels too troubling to work as a comedy for modern audiences. But director Justin Audibert re-imagines the play, inverting the gender to explore power and dominance. The male characters become female and women are now men, with Claire Price playing Petruchia and Joseph Arkley as Katherine. In this visionary new version of the tale, where women are in charge, Shakespeare's problem play gets a provocative take on gender, power and subservience.


Critics at The Taming of the Shrew opening in Stratford-upon-Avon described it as a 'landmark production', that is 'pacy, engaging and slyly revealing'.

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Measure for Measure

12 November 2019 – 16 January 2020




Artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Gregory Doran gives Shakespeare's murky morality play a lucid lease of life. Themes of manipulation and abuse of power feel especially resonant and relevant as Lucy Phelps plays a young novice nun who is blackmailed by The Duke into surrendering her virginity to save her brother. When helpless Isabella threatens to expose this corruption she is told nobody will believe her word against that of a powerful man.


Reviews of the Stratford-upon-Avon premiere of Measure for Measure praised an 'assured' and 'perfectly judged production' with 'tremendous' and 'terrific' lead performances.

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What RSC Barbican Season 2019
Where Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, E2CY 8DS | MAP
Nearest tube Barbican (underground)
When 26 Oct 19 – 18 Jan 20, Performance times vary
Price £10 - £59.50
Website Click here to book now

Free for Members
Up to £75
As You Like It at the RSC. Photo by Topher McGrillis
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