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Matilda The Musical

Matilda The Musical

Matilda The Musical, the multi-award winning musical from the Royal Shakespeare Company is heading back on tour around the UK and Ireland! Inspired by Roald Dahl’s beloved book, Matilda The Musical is written by Dennis Kelly with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin.
Matilda is the story of an extraordinary little girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. Winner of over 100 international awards, Matilda continues to delight audiences in London’s West End and will be touring the UK and Ireland in 2025 -2026
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London

Cambridge Theatre

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UK & Ireland Tour

Multiple Venues

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West End + UK & Ireland Tour
Booking until May 2026
My Neighbour Totoro

My Neighbour Totoro

Find your spirit with the return of the "awe-inspiring" (Time Out) production of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro, in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV. Following two rapturously received, sell-out runs at the Barbican, discover this five-star, ground-breaking "triumph" (Telegraph) at the Gillian Lynne Theatre from 8 March 2025.
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Gillian Lynne Theatre

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From 8 March to 2 November 2025
The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

Nancy Harris

When an orphaned young woman is taken in by some local do-gooders, she is expected to be seen and not heard. Dazzled by a pair of beautiful shoes, she sees the chance to do and be so much more, but soon her feet betray her, taking her to places she does not wish to go.
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Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
Until 19 January 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Until 19 January 2025
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

Experience a 'ravishing fusion of flamboyancy and fun' (Guardian) in the RSC’s smash-hit sell-out production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, transferring to London’s Barbican from 3 December.

With Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) as Bottom, this hilarious production of Shakespeare’s captivating comedy will transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. As four young lovers are faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, they flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest, where the real and fairy worlds collide.

Director Eleanor Rhode returns to the RSC with a 'joyous' (Times) Dream that is magical, mischievous and full of wonder.
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Barbican Theatre
London
Until 18 January 2025
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London
Until 18 January 2025
Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

A woman survives a shipwreck and washes up on an unknown shore. Alone and bereaved of her twin brother, she embarks on a secret new life as a go-between for two people in the extremity of love and grief. Caught up in the ensuing love triangle she experiences the chaos and humanity of unexpected love.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
Until 18 January 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Until 18 January 2025
Kyoto

Kyoto

By Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson

Kyoto, the 'truly remarkable' (WhatsOnStage) new political thriller, transfers to London's West End in 2025. Brought to you by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance, fresh from a critically acclaimed run in Stratford-upon-Avon, this 'tense and gripping' (Guardian) show brings a world of hope to @SohoPlace for a strictly limited 16-week season from 9 January.
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@Sohoplace
London
9 January - 3 May 2025
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London
From 9 January to 3 May 2025
First Encounters The Tempest

First Encounters The Tempest

A perfect storm brings a feuding family and a king together on a magical island, but will all be forgiven and forgotten? This 80-minute version of The Tempest uses an edited version of the original play to create the perfect introduction to Shakespeare.

The Tempest will tour theatres, schools and community venues from February to May 2025, and comes to The Other Place from 25-29 March.
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On Tour
3 February - 10 May 2025
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The Other Place
Stratford-upon-Avon
25 - 29 March 2025
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON + ON TOUR
From 3 February to 10 May 2025
Hamlet

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

‘Drown the stage with tears.’

When Hamlet’s dead father appears to him one night, he signals murder, not madness.

Hamlet’s mother has married his uncle, and at a less than decent interval too. As he pulls at the threads of his not-so-happy new family, Hamlet unravels a web of deceit and immorality that leads to the ultimate crisis of conscience.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
8 February - 29 March 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
From 8 February to 29 March 2025
Edward II

Edward II

Christopher Marlowe

The King is dead, long live the King. And his boyfriend. When Edward II insists on ruling with the man he loves by his side, the Palace refuses. The establishment conspires to restore the natural order, plunging the country into a civil war and threatening the very existence of the monarchy.

Better a dead king than a gay king.
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Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
21 February - 5 April 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
From 21 February to 5 April 2025
Hamlet Hail to the Thief
Co-Produced by Factory International & the RSC

Hamlet Hail to the Thief

William Shakespeare Adapted by Christine Jones with Steven Hoggett

Shakespeare's great tragedy and Radiohead’s seminal album collide for a feverish experience that fuses theatre, music, and movement.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
4 - 28 June 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
From 4 to 28 June 2025
4.48 Psychosis
In a co-production with the Royal Court Theatre

4.48 Psychosis

Sarah Kane

A quarter century from its debut, the entire original cast and creative team return to revisit Sarah Kane’s final masterpiece 25 years on.

4.48 Psychosis plunges the audience into the mind of an unnamed protagonist grappling with severe depression. Kane crafts an unflinching portrait of a psyche teetering on the edge of oblivion.
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The Other Place
Stratford-upon-Avon
10 - 27 July 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
From 10 to 27 July 2025

Events

The Play's The Thing

The Play's The Thing

Visit our free exhibition and discover the stories behind the ever-changing world of the RSC.

Take the chance to see a First Folio from 1623, costumes worn by Ian McKellen and Alex Kingston or have a go at our quick change challenge and other interactive exhibits.

Open Daily
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RSC Friends Events

RSC Friends Events

FRIENDS EVENTS – JOIN TODAY

Join the RSC Friends for access to special events including Q&As with actors and directors, and overnight literary-themed trips, plus festive gatherings and celebrations to mark Shakespeare’s Birthday, and opportunities to volunteer and fundraise.
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In Conversation with Samuel West
Stratford Methodist Church
Stratford-upon-Avon
17 January 2025

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Stratford-upon-Avon
17 January 2025
Unwrapped

Unwrapped

Our Unwrapped demonstrations offer a peek into the rehearsal room, with the Assistant Director and members of the cast, often our understudies, looking at one or two particular moments from the play. They give an insight into how a scene is taken off the page and onto the stage, with the actors and Assistant Director showing the type of exercises and discussion that took place during rehearsals.
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Unwrapped: Twelfth Night
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
18 January 2025
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Unwrapped: Edward II
Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
22 March 2025
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Unwrapped: Hamlet
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
29 March 2025
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Unwrapped: Hamlet Hail to the Thief
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
21 June 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates, next: 18 January 2025
PATRON EVENTS

PATRON EVENTS

Our Patrons are invited to a range of exciting events where they can learn more about the RSC's creative processes, our ground breaking education work and how their support directly impacts the RSC and our communities.
Patrons' Matinee Drinks: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Barbican Theatre
London
18 January 2025

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Patrons’ Drinks: Edward II
Stratford-upon-Avon
4 March 2025

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Patrons: Your Year Ahead
Stratford-upon-Avon
15 March 2025

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Patrons' Drinks: 4.48 Psychosis
Stratford-upon-Avon
12 July 2025

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London
Selected dates, next: 18 January 2025
Discover Days

Discover Days

Discover Days are a chance to meet and find out more about the people who work across the RSC. From the history of our Collection to designing our shows there are a variety of talks and interactive sessions for you to be a part of and even opportunities to have a go yourself. Our Discover Days are perfect for lifelong learners and show audiences alike.
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Discover Day: Music
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
25 January 2025
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Discover Day: Casting
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
15 February 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates, next: 25 January 2025
February Half Term

February Half Term

Join us for a week of Mischief and Mayhem with workshops and activities for all ages. From puppetry to stage combat, acting workshops to Blood, Guts and Gore sessions, there’s something for the whole family. Come along and learn something new, have fun and make a little mischief this February half term.
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Family Storytelling
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
17 - 18 February 2025
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Act Shakespeare: 8-11
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
17 February 2025
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Family Stage Combat
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
17 February 2025
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Act Shakespeare 11-14
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
17 February 2025
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Puppetry Workshop 8-11
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
18 February 2025
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Act Shakespeare Masterclass: 8-11s
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
18 February 2025
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Prop-Making Workshop 11-14s
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
18 February 2025
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Stage Combat 8-11s
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
19 February 2025
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Act Shakespeare Masterclass: 11-14s
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
19 February 2025
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Act Shakespeare Masterclass: 14 -18s
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
19 February 2025
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Stage Combat 11-14s
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
19 February 2025
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Stage Combat 14 - 18s
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
19 February 2025
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Blood, Guts & Gore
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
20 February 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates, next: 17 February 2025
Director Talks

Director Talks

We offer talks with members of each production's creative team, revealing some of the influences and decisions that have created the production. From rehearsal room processes and design choices, to characterisation and relationships this is a fascinating insight into the creative process.
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Director Talk: Hamlet
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
17 February 2025
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Director Talk: Edward II
Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
4 March 2025
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Creative Team Talk: Hamlet Hail to the Thief
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
11 June 2025
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Director Talk: 4.48 Psychosis
The Other Place
Stratford-upon-Avon
12 July 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates, next: 17 February 2025
18-25s Masterclass

18-25s Masterclass

Calling all budding performers! Join specialist RSC practitioners for this acting masterclass, exploring how to open up, interpret, and perform Shakespeare. Work on select dialogues and soliloquies, focusing on Hamlet as a source text. Includes a meet and greet and feedback with a representative from the RSC Casting team. Why not complete your masterclass day with a £10 TikTok ticket to our production Hamlet?
18-25s Masterclass
Clore Learning Centre
Stratford-upon-Avon
21 February 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates, next: 21 February 2025
RSC Spring School

RSC Spring School

Join us for our first Spring School, a two-day programme focused on Shakespeare's Hamlet and Marlowe's Edward II, including discussions around these two playwrights. The weekend will feature talks with leading academics, actors, directors, and RSC theatre makers. From a seat in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, learn more about how we make theatre, how creative teams have approached our current season, and how these plays have been interpreted across history.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
28 - 29 March 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates, next: 28 March 2025
Morton Hall 2025

Morton Hall 2025

In spring 2025 Morton Hall Gardens opens its gates to visitors for its annual Tulip Festival. Over 100 tulip varieties can be admired in borders, pots and as cut flowers, revealing the magic and splendour of this unique flower.
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Morton Hall Tulip Festival
Morton Hall Gardens
Redditch
3 - 5 May 2025

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Morton Hall Patrons' Garden Tours
Morton Hall Gardens
Redditch
3 - 5 May 2025

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Redditch
Selected dates, next: 3 May 2025

Tours

Guided Tours

Guided Tours

Guided tours will run daily and every 60 minute tour will include an element of the building that is not otherwise accessible to the public. Where possible, our guided tours will for the first time include access to our newly developed Costume Workshop.*

Tickets cost £13.50. Up to 4 children go half price with every full price paying adult.

For Group bookings, please contact the Box Office on 01789 331111 (Monday - Friday, midday - 6pm excluding bank holidays)

*We will make every effort to include access to the auditorium or costume workshop areas as part of the tour, however please note that as a working theatre company routes may change due to other activity taking place and so this cannot always be guaranteed.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
Until 30 December 2024
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates from 19 December 2024
Touch Tour: Stratford

Touch Tour: Stratford

Touch Tours are offered to visually impaired patrons attending an audio described performance on the same day.
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28 December 2024 - 21 March 2025
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14 June - 25 July 2025
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Costume Tour

Costume Tour

Get close up to our fabulous costumes and discover the expert tailoring and craft techniques that go into making them.
You will be shown around our state-of-the-art Costume Workshop to see at first-hand how our costumes are made, from cutting, tailoring and stitching to finishing techniques such as dyeing, printing and beading. Then visit our Costume Hire at The Other Place to get close up to our gowns, crowns and many other items.
The tour route is fully accessible for wheelchair and mobility scooter users. It is a continuous walking tour with no opportunities to sit down during the tour. Wear weather-appropriate clothing and footwear for walking outside.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
2 January - 29 March 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates from 2 January 2025
Theatre Tour

Theatre Tour

Immerse yourself in the workings of theatre, with stories of people who shaped our unique history.
We begin the story of the RSC in our Front of House areas, taking a look at the hidden history of the most-seen areas of the building and introducing you to the people and stories that made the RSC what it is today, from well-known performers to skilled craftspeople. You will also go behind the scenes and get up close to some of our costumes, with the chance to get hands on, try on some items of headwear - maybe a crown or a helmet? And explore our hair and make-up box.

The tour route is fully wheelchair accessible.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
3 January - 31 March 2025
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Selected dates from 3 January 2025
Scenic Workshop Tour

Scenic Workshop Tour

Discover how our skilled carpenters, engineers and artists build the world of a performance.
See the life cycle of a set, from the design phase to the workshops where a team of engineers and carpenters bring the drawings to life. Watch our expert propmakers create the objects you see on stage and explore our Prop Hire store, a treasure trove of objects, small and large, where we store the furniture and props used in our shows and hire them out.

Tour suitable for adults and young people aged 12.

The tour takes place at our workshops at Timothy Bridge Road, on the outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon. Onsite parking is only available for blue badge holders. Parking and public transport is available from Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway Station (12 minutes' walk).

Unfortunately this tour isn't accessible for mobility scooters or wheelchair users. You will need good mobility to explore the building. Wear closed toe and heel footwear, with no high heels.
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Timothy's Bridge Road Workshop
Stratford-upon-Avon
22 January - 25 June 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates from 22 January 2025
Ghost Tour

Ghost Tour

Did someone say "Macbeth"? Learn about theatre superstitions and some supernatural sightings.
This tour will take you through some of the stories that have arisen during that 140+ years that there has been a theatre on our site in Stratford-upon-Avon, including ghostly exits and entrances, but also the history of theatre superstition.
Once the building has closed to other visitors, you will visit the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres and experience complete darkness, then move through to other parts of the buildings where visitors are normally not allowed to find out more about how we achieve some of the gory or ghostly effects in our performances.
This tour is fully wheelchair accessible.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
16 February - 30 March 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Selected dates from 16 February 2025

Learning

Teacher Webinars

Teacher Webinars

90 minute online courses for teachers on the plays on our stages. Our webinars are designed to introduce teachers to our rehearsal room approaches to engage students with learning about Shakespeare. Join us online for inspiration, and insight into our upcoming shows.
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Teacher Webinar: Hamlet
Hamlet
ONLINE
25 February 2025
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Teacher Webinar: Edward II
Edward II
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4 March 2025
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Online
Selected dates from 18 December 2024
Twelfth Night Open Day

Twelfth Night Open Day

Join us for a fun-filled day with opportunities to broaden your students' understanding of Shakespeare's language and Twelfth Night as a play, as well as providing an Insight into the matinee production. School groups can take part in a range of activities and experiences, including a one-hour on-stage session in the Royal Shakepeare Theatre with members of the company, looking at key scenes and characters. These short practical workshops are tailored to your group's needs and requests. In the afternoon, students will see the matinee performance of an RSC show. Suitable for KS2 and above.
Twelfth Night Open Day
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
16 January 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
16 January 2025
Sixth Form Conferences

Sixth Form Conferences

Explore plays in more depth with this study day for Sixth Form English & Drama Students. Enjoy a series of talks and practical events with academics, actors, creatives and practitioners. The day will include a range of exam-focused material including historical, social and political context, scene and character study, production choices and interpretation. There is also the opportunity to book tickets for the show in the evening (additional cost applies, £10 TikTok tickets may be available).
Sixth Form Conference: Hamlet
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
12 March 2025
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Stratford-upon-Avon
12 March 2025