Actor Rory Kinnear, who plays Bill Tanner in the most recent Bond films, also worked in the
Royal Shakespeare Company.
The World Shakespeare Festival is a celebration of Shakespeare as the world's playwright, produced by the
Royal Shakespeare Company in an unprecedented collaboration with leading UK and international arts organisations, and with Globe to Globe, a major international programme produced by Shakespeare's Globe.
The
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced it will be coming back to the North East this autumn with its young people's version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, performing at locations in Tyneside, Northumberland and Durham.
Also among the cast, announced last night, are Thusitha Jaysundera (Holby City, The Bill,
Royal Shakespeare Company), Alan Cox (Young Sherlock Holmes, An Awfully Big Adventure, Midsummer Murders), Susan Twist (Brookside), Russell Richardson (Coronation Street, Hollyoaks) and a host of well-established stage actors.
Ian McKellen in the
Royal Shakespeare Company's King Lear
All eight of the great bard's "history" plays are being performed here by the
Royal Shakespeare Company this month.
It's tough not to think of John Barton, who founded the modern
Royal Shakespeare Company with Peter Hall, as a swami.
Caption: One Hanson Place recently played host to cast members of The
Royal Shakespeare Company at a closing reception for King Lear.
Offering a Modern English adaptation that utilizes a combination of model animation and traditional sketch work, enhanced with the dramatic voices of actors drawn from the
Royal Shakespeare Company, the three volumes in this superbly crafted and presented series of 30-minute presentations of "The Canterbury Tales" will engage young minds and imaginations with respect to all of the core literary themes the stories embodied in the individual stories including greed, deception, betrayal, and lust.
Born in Salisbury, England, and raised in West Cork, Ireland, Fiennes, whose brother is the actor Ralph Fiennes, spent a decade with prestigious outfits such as the
Royal Shakespeare Company before movie roles came calling.
The complete and unabridged text of the biblical "Book of Psalms" is superbly read by Alex Jennings, whose resume includes lead performances for
Royal Shakespeare Company productions, and enhanced with English choral music from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Claire Cox, a regular with the
Royal Shakespeare Company, adds depth, poise and beauty in her role as Luther's wife Katharina von Bora, an ex-nun who married the reluctant renegade.