Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company, one of the most influential in the country. It is located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London, and Newcastle.

Key productions

• The Wars of the Roses, adaptation of the Henry VI plays, directed by Sir Peter Hall (1963-64)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Brook (1970)
• Macbeth, starring Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen (1977)
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1980)
• Richard III, starring Sir Antony Sher (1984)
• Les Misérables (1985)
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses, starring Lindsay Duncan, Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman (1985)
• The Plantagenets, directed by Adrian Noble (1988)
• The Gift of the Gorgon, starring Dame Judi Dench (1992)
• Hamlet, starring Kenneth Branagh, directed by Adrian Noble (1992)
• ' (2000), a season of all Shakespeare's sequential history plays