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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

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Tel : 0844 800 1110

Some of the new World Shakespeare Festival commissions include:



Two Roses for Richard III (working title), directed by Claudio Baltar and Fabio Ferreira - Companhia Bufomecanica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A grand spectacle of circus and theatre fused together in a unique performance from Companhia BufoMecanica, which takes Shakespeare’s text as the inspiration for a glorious black carnival of villainy, corruption and seduction.

Romeo and Juliet, directed by Monadhil Daood - Iraqi Theatre Company, Baghdad, Iraq

Shakespeare’s great love story, set against a backdrop of conflict between families, communities and generations, finds new purchase in the soil of contemporary Iraq, where sectarian strife between Sunni and Shia, ignited and fuelled from outside, has left its population exhausted by a cycle of violence and revenge. Baghdad’s Iraqi Theatre Company will create a Romeo and Juliet for a new generation, infused with Iraq’s rich traditions of poetry, music and ritual.



Coriolan/us, directed by Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes - National Theatre Wales

From the National Theatre Wales team that created Aeschylus’s The Persians on the military training range of mid-Wales, the story of Caius Martius – Coriolanus – is re-imagined in the era of 24-hour news, celebrity culture, and a new global polity. Outside broadcasts from the battlefield, popular grievances straight to camera and audience participants as the body politic provide a ‘mash up’ of previous attempts to get to grips with a figure contrary and perplexing, ever contemporary and ever challenging of our beliefs.

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