Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey today announce details of the RSC’s Summer 2025 season and upcoming festive family show, The BFG. This big, friendly production from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Roald Dahl Story Company, is adapted by Tom Wells and directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans in his directorial debut for the Company.
Joining the previously announced Hamlet Hail to the Thief and 4.48 Psychosis are five new Shakespeare productions directed by Joanna Bowman, Emily Burns, Yaël Farber, Michael Longhurst and Max Webster, a new version of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife, which will see Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade re-unite with Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey, the European premiere of Fat Ham by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames, and nationwide tours of Rupert Goold’s Hamlet and First Encounters: King Lear.
The Summer season will welcome internationally-renowned acting talent to Stratford-upon-Avon – including returning artists Simon Russell Beale and Freema Agyeman with Rose Leslie and Nick Blood making their RSC debuts.
Across the season, the RSC will celebrate creative partnerships with Factory International, The Public Theater New York and the Royal Court Theatre. The Company will also step into new spheres of storytelling, collaborating with Brooklyn-based creative studio iNK Stories in a groundbreaking co-production combining Shakespeare and commercial video game production.
Audiences of all ages will have the opportunity to come together to watch, make and explore, with highlights including an 80-minute staging of Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Tim Crouch’s I, Peaseblossom, his hit adaptation of William Shakespeare’sA Midsummer Night's Dream; a programme of interactive theatre workshops, free drop-in activities, family theatre trails, and the return of the RSC’s popular acting-based Summer schools for ages 8-14 and 18-25.
Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans said:
“Over the last twelve months, our guiding principle as Co-Artistic Directors has been to seek out the most exciting directors, writers and actors working in the UK and internationally, and ask them which stories they feel a passionate desire to tell.
“Our 2025/26 season will bring together an international roster of creative talent, where the works of William Shakespeare stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the most compelling voices in modern playwriting, from Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade to the late, great Sarah Kane and the Pulitzer Prize-winning James Ijames. And then there’s Roald Dahl, one of our greatest storytellers and children’s authors, whose 1982 novel The BFG will be the inspiration for our magical festive family show in 2025, newly adapted for the stage by Tom Wells.
“Alongside five new productions from the pen of our house playwright, directed by Joanna Bowman, Emily Burns, Yaël Farber, Michael Longhurst and Max Webster, we will also celebrate the diverse ways in which Shakespeare’s characters and stories continue to prove fertile ground for re-invention and re-discovery, with the world premiere of Hamlet Hail to the Thief, a frenetic distillation of the Hamlet story, set alongside the soundtrack of Radiohead’s seminal album, and the European premiere of James Ijames’ tragi-comic family drama, Fat Ham. We’re even taking our first foray into the world of gaming with Lili, a powerful, contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth set in modern Iran, currently in development for 2026.”
THE SEASON IN FULL
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE:
- Director Michael Longhurst kicks off the season with a new staging of Shakespeare’s original rom-com, Much Ado About Nothing, set in the glossy world of professional football in a new production featuring Freema Agyeman as Beatrice and Nick Blood as Benedick
- Shakespeare’s great tragedy and Radiohead’s seminal album collide in the world premiere of Hamlet Hail to the Thief, adapted by Christine Jones with Steven Hoggett with music by Radiohead and Orchestrations by Thom Yorke
- Yaël Farber makes her RSC debut with Shakespeare's enigmatic story of love, loss and rebirth, The Winter’s Tale
- Emily Burns returns to direct a new staging of William Shakespeare’s razor-sharp examination of hypocrisy and corruption, Measure for Measure, following her acclaimed RSC debut in 2024 with Love’s Labour’s Lost
- A Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre and Roald Dahl Story Company production, Roald Dahl’s unforgettable story comes to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage in Tom Wells’ magical new adaptation of The BFG, directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans
SWAN THEATRE:
- Olivier and Tony Award-winning actor Simon Russell Beale returns to the RSC alongside Associate Artist Emma Fielding and Natey Jones in a new production of Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus, directed by Max Webster, whose recent credits include The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre and Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse
- Rose Leslie stars in a sparkling new version of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife, adapted by Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade and directed by Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey
- Originally produced Off-Broadway by The Public Theater and National Black Theatre, James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham makes its European premiere with original direction by Saheem Ali, directed for the Swan Theatre by Sideeq Heard
- Multi award-winning writer and performer Tim Crouch presents his magical adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream: I, Peaseblossom
- Richard Nelson’s moving and compelling one-man play, An Actor Convalescing in Devon, visits the Swan Theatre with RSC Associate Artist Paul Jesson
THE OTHER PLACE
- 4.48 Psychosis, Sarah Kane’s final masterpiece, returns 25 years on in a newco-production with the Royal Court Theatre reuniting the entire original cast and creative team. Directed by the award-winning James Macdonald with Daniel Evans, Jo McInnes and Madeleine Potter reprising their roles
- Joanna Bowman directs a new 80-minute version of Shakespeare’s gloriously silly comedy of love and friendship, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Tickets for Hamlet Hail to the Thief and 4.48 Psychosis are on sale now at rsc.org.uk.
For all other shows, priority booking for Members and Supporters opens from Friday 31 January at 10am with public booking opening on Wednesday 12 February at 10am.
For further information on how to become an RSC Member or Supporter, visit here.
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ON TOUR IN THEATRES, CLASSROOMS AND COMMUNITIES
Also announced today ahead of its opening in Stratford-upon-Avon this February, Shakespeare’s epic family saga Hamlet embarks on a new tour to our partner regional theatres across England in 2026, directed by multi award-winning director and incoming Artistic Director of the Old Vic, Rupert Goold. The production will tour to towns and cities throughout the Spring, including Truro, Bradford, Norwich, Nottingham, Blackpool, Newcastle, York and Canterbury. Full casting for the UK tour is yet to be announced.
Julien Boast, Chief Executive and Creative Director at Hall for Cornwall, the first theatre on the tour, said:
"We're proud to be standing alongside Rupert Goold and the RSC team to bring this landmark production to a wider audience. Our enduring partnership with the RSC and our national network of Associate Theatres has never been stronger, and this is partnership in the true sense of the word, with community at its heart. It is a beacon and role model for a co-created approach to touring, generating true and mutually beneficial impact that is welcomed by audiences, artists, young people and the local economy, at all our theatres”.
In Autumn 2025, even more young people will experience their first taste of Shakespeare in their classrooms and communities with First Encounters: King Lear directed by Justine Themen. The 12-week tour of schools, theatres and community venues begins in September 2025. The production will open in Leamington Spa, after which it will tour to Cornwall, Skegness, Nottingham, Canterbury, Stratford-upon-Avon, Norwich and Peterborough. The Autumn tour will see the RSC further expand its reach across the country with first-time visits to the Isles of Scilly and Southampton.
This 80-minute version of Shakespeare’s masterful tragedy joins the previously announced Spring tour of First Encounters: The Tempest directed by Aaron Parsons. The tour opens from 6 February in Birmingham with visits to County Durham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, York, Hull, Bradford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Corby, Blackpool, Cumbria and Northampton. The two First Encounters tours give an estimated 24,000 young people the opportunity to experience a Shakespeare production in their school hall or local theatre this year.
They join the previously announced tour of the RSC’s multi award-winning Matilda The Musical, which begins its second major tour of the UK and Ireland in October, opening in Leicester on 6 October 2025. Based on Roald Dahl’s best-selling novel with literacy and books at its heart, the show has already been seen by 12 million people across 100 cities worldwide. The musical will celebrate 15 years on stage when it opens at Leicester Curve before traveling to Bradford, Liverpool, Plymouth, Sunderland, Edinburgh, and Manchester where it will run through March and April 2026. Further tour dates to be announced.
Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey added:
“As a national theatre company based in the heart of the Midlands, we believe passionately in the power of Shakespeare and live performance to inspire creativity, ignite the imagination and to change lives for the better. At a time when creative learning provision in English schools has reached an all-time low, our newly announced First Encounters touringproduction of King Lear will help ensure that thousands more pupils and teachers have the opportunity to enjoy a live performance of Shakespeare or live theatre in their own hometown or city in 2025.”
NEW FRONTIERS – LILI: A SCREEN LIFE THRILLER VIDEO GAME INSPIRED BY THE WORLD OF SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH
Announced last week is a new collaboration between the RSC and iNK Stories, a New York city based independent game studio and publisher, to create Lili. Set in contemporary Iran, this interactive, video game puts Lady Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s most iconic female leads, front and centre.
This cross-industry collaboration marks the RSC's debut in video gaming. Featuring Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir as Lady Macbeth (Lili), the game is co-produced by her Paris-based Alambic Productions. Zar draws from her lived experience as an Iranian woman in exile who has courageously confronted her own battles against authoritarian gendered oppression.
Lili is a screen life thriller video game which gives players access to Lady Macbeth's personal devices, combining the skill and artistry of theatre and film to tell this interactive story. Players will be immersed in a stylized, neo-noir vision of modern Iran, where surveillance and authoritarianism are part of daily life. The gameplay will feature a blend of live-action cinema within an interactive game format, giving players the chance to immerse themselves in the world of Lady Macbeth and make choices that influence her destiny.
Macbeth’s witches are reimagined as hackers, with surveillance cameras and cyber-infiltration putting the player at the heart of the story and giving them a unique perspective into the world of the play. This modern twist on the Macbeth story explores themes of technological domination, the manipulation of information, and institutional violence, reflecting the dark realities of inequities in our digital age.
Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans, RSC Co-Artistic Directors said:
“From its first performance, Macbeth was always exhilarating: its sudden opening with thunder and lightning raises audience adrenaline levels and propels them as participants, not just spectators, into the jittery, action-driven narrative. Lili creates similar effects for audiences. As a storytelling medium, gaming today is what theatre has always been; a chance to explore worlds, inhabit story, and experience something at once personal and communal. Centring this tense thriller around Lady Macbeth rather than her husband is radical and transformative. It turns the play’s questions around gender, identity and power inside out.”
ENDS
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SHOW BY SHOW:
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
By William Shakespeare
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Saturday 12 April – Saturday 24 May
Press Night: Tuesday 22 April at 7pm
Tickets from £16
Michael Longhurst, fresh from his tenure as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse (Next To Normal, The Band’s Visit, Constellations) relocates Shakespeare’s original rom-com to the world of top-flight football, where scandal-filled rivalries can undermine the final result.
Joining Director Michael Longhurst is Set and Costume Designer, Jon Bausor; Lighting Designer, Jack Knowles; Choreographer and Movement Director, Julia Cheng; and Casting Director, Anna Cooper CDG, with further names to be announced.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
By William Shakespeare
Swan Theatre
Thursday 17 April – Saturday 7 June
Press Night: Tuesday 29 April at 7pm
Tickets from £10
Director Max Webster, whose recent credits include Macbeth with David Tennant at the Donmar Warehouse and in the West End, examines Shakespeare’s bloodiest play through the lens of 21st century aggression.
Olivier, Tony and BAFTA Award winner Simon Russell Beale takes the title role with Emma Fielding as Marcia Andronicus, Natey Jones as Aaron the Moor, Wendy Kweh as Tamora and Letty Thomas.
Joining Webster on the creative team are Set and Costume Designer, Joanna Scotcher; Lighting Designer Tingying Dong; Composer, Matthew Herbert; Sound Designer, Lee Curran; Casting Director, Matthew Dewsbury CDG and Children’s Casting Director, Charlie Metcalf, with further names to be announced.
I, PEASEBLOSSOM
Written and performed by Tim Crouch
Wednesday 28 – Saturday 31 May
Swan Theatre
Tickets from £10 to £25
Multi award-winning writer and performer Tim Crouch presents his magical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, re-lived through the fevered dreams of Shakespeare’s most neglected fairy. Written and performed by Tim Crouch, with Original Design by Graeme Gilmour, and Music by Karl James.
A co-production with Factory International
HAMLET HAIL TO THE THIEF
By William Shakespeare, adapted by Christine Jones with Steven Hoggett
Music by Radiohead
Orchestrations by Thom Yorke
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Wednesday 4 - Saturday 28 June 2025
Regional Press Night: Thursday 12 June at 7pm 2025
Tickets from £18.50
Shakespeare’s great tragedy and Radiohead’s seminal album collide for a feverish experience that fuses theatre, music, and movement.
Adapted by Christine Jones with Steven Hoggett, with Music by Radiohead and Orchestrations by Thom Yorke, Hamlet Hail to the Thief distils Shakespeare’s masterpiece to its dark and glittering emotional core.
The full creative team includes Directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones, Set Designer AMP Collective featuring Sadra Tehrani; Arranger, Justin Levine; Choreographer, Jess Williams; Music Supervisor and Music Director, Tom Brady; Sound Designer, Gareth Fry; Video Designer, Will Duke; Lighting Designer, Jessica Hung Han Yun; Costume Designer, Lisa Duncan; Dramaturg and Text Consultant, Ayanna Thompson; and Casting Director, Charlotte Sutton CDG.
THE CONSTANT WIFE
by W. Somerset Maugham in a new version by Laura Wade
Swan Theatre
Friday 20 June – Saturday 2 August
Press Night: Tuesday 1 July at 7pm
Tickets from £10
RSC Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey and playwright Laura Wade reunite after their Olivier Award-winning collaboration, Home, I’m Darling, to reimagine W. Somerset Maugham’s subversive comedy, The Constant Wife, in a sparkling new version.
Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Vigil) plays Constance, a 1920s heroine with a decidedly modern spirit.
Joining Wade and Harvey on the creative team are Set and Co-Costume Designer, Anna Fleischle; Co-Costume Designer Cat Fuller; Lighting Designer, Ryan Day; Sound Designer, Claire Windsor; and Casting Director, Charlotte Sutton CDG, with further names to be announced.
This production is commissioned by and presented in association with David Pugh Limited.
A co-production with the Royal Court Theatre
4.48 PSYCHOSIS
By Sarah Kane
The Other Place
Thursday 10 – Sunday 27 July
Regional Press Night: Tuesday 15 July at 7pm
Tickets from £35
A quarter century from its debut, the entire original cast and creative team return to revisit Sarah Kane’s final masterpiece 25 years on. In a co-production with the Royal Court Theatre, directed by award-winning James Macdonald (Waiting for Godot, West End) with original cast members Daniel Evans, Jo McInnes and Madeleine Potter reprising their roles.
The production transfers to The Other Place following its run at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
The full creative team includes Set and Costume Designer, Jeremy Herbert; Lighting Designer, Nigel Edwards; Sound Designer, Paul Arditti; and Casting Director, Lisa Makin.
THE WINTER’S TALE
By William Shakespeare
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Saturday 12 July – Saturday 30 August
Press Night: Tuesday 22 July at 7pm
Tickets from £16
Shakespeare's enigmatic story of love, loss and rebirth is directed by Yaël Farber in her RSC debut following acclaimed productions of King Lear and the Olivier-nominated Macbeth for the Almeida Theatre.
The creative team includes Set and Costume Designer, Soutra Gilmour; Lighting Designer, Tim Lutkin; Casting Director, Julia Horan CDG; and Children’s Casting Director, Charlie Metcalf, with further names to be announced.
AN ACTOR CONVALESCING IN DEVON
By Richard Nelson
Presented by Face It Theatre
Sunday 20 July
Swan Theatre
Tickets from £10 to £25
Richard Nelson’s funny and compelling play transfers to the Swan Theatre after opening in Hampstead in 2024. Written for RSC Associate Artist Paul Jesson, An Actor Convalescing in Devon movingly affirms the healing power of art and the healing art of theatre.
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
By William Shakespeare
The Other Place
Monday 4 – Sunday 31 August
Press Night: Tuesday 12 August at 5pm
Tickets from £10
Shakespeare’s gloriously silly story of love, friendship and growing up bursts on to the stage of The Other Place in a new 80-minute version directed by Joanna Bowman, Associate Artist at Tron Theatre (Wolfie and Escaped Alone, Tron Theatre; The Inquiry, Chichester Festival Theatre).
With thanks to Season Supporter Charles Holloway OBE
Produced in association with No Guarantees Productions, Public Theater Productions and Rashad V. Chambers
Originating Producers: The Public Theater and National Black Theatre
FAT HAM
By James Ijames
Swan Theatre
Friday 15 August – Saturday 13 September
Press Night: Thursday 21 August at 7pm
Tickets from £10
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Fat Ham is a delectable comic tragedy written by the award-winning playwright James Ijames, originally produced Off-Broadway by The Public Theater and National Black Theatre. On Broadway, Fat Ham was nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play and Best Direction of a Play. Original Direction by Saheem Ali, directed for the Swan Theatre by Sideeq Heard with Set Design by Maruti Evans.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
By William Shakespeare
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Saturday 13 September – Saturday 25 October
Press Night: Tuesday 23 September at 7pm
Tickets from £16
Director Emily Burns returns to the RSC following the success of 2024's Love's Labour's Lost to direct Shakespeare's razor-sharp thriller of hypocrisy and corruption.
Joining Burns on the Creative team are Set and Costume Designer Frankie Bradshaw; Sound Designer Christopher Shutt and Casting Director Charlotte Sutton CDG, with further creative team to be announced.
Measure for Measure is supported by RSC Production Circle Members Serrie and Ian Meakins
Roald Dahl’s
THE BFG
Adapted by Tom Wells
A Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre and Roald Dahl Story Company production
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tuesday 25 November 2025 – Saturday 31 January 2026
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Press Night: Tuesday 9 December at 7pm
Tickets from £16
Chichester Festival Theatre
Monday 16 March – Sunday 12 April 2026
Further details and booking will be announced in September 2025.
Roald Dahl’s unforgettable story come to life this winter in a magical new adaptation by Tom Wells (The Kitchen Sink, Jumpers for Goalposts), directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans, whose previous productions include Quiz, South Pacific and Our Generation.
Joining Evans and Wells on the creative team is Puppetry Designer and Director, Toby Olié; Set Designer, Vicki Mortimer; Costume Designer, Kinnetia Isidore; Lighting Designer, Zoe Spurr; Video Designer, Akhila Krishnan; Illusions, Chris Fisher; Composer, Oleta Haffner; Sound Designer, Carolyn Downing; Choreographer and Movement Director, Ira Mandela Siobhan; Puppetry Co-Designer, Daisy Beattie. The Casting Director is Christopher Worrall CDG; and the Children’s Casting Director is Verity Naughton CDG.
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ON TOUR:
HAMLET
By William Shakespeare
Multi award-winner Rupert Goold (Dear England, National Theatre, Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice, RSC), directs Hamlet in this new production of Shakespeare’s family saga.
Joining Rupert on the creative team are Revival Director, Sophie Drake; Set Designer, Es Devlin; Costume Designer, Evie Gurney; Lighting Designer, Jack Knowles; Composer and Sound Designer, Adam Cork; Movement Director, Hannes Langolf; Video Designer, Akhila Krishnan; and Casting Director, Charlotte Sutton CDG.
Hall for Cornwall, Tuesday 24 February – Saturday 28 February 2026
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford, Tuesday 3 March – Saturday 7 March 2026
Norwich Theatre Royal, Tuesday 10 March – Saturday 14 March 2026
Nottingham Theatre Royal, Tuesday 17 March – Saturday 21 March 2026
Grand Theatre, Blackpool, Tuesday 24 March – Saturday 28 March 2026
Theatre Royal, Newcastle, Tuesday 31 March – Saturday 4 April 2026
York Theatre Royal, Tuesday 14 April – Saturday 18 April 2026
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury – Tuesday 21 April – Saturday 25 April 2026
First Encounters
THE TEMPEST
Edited by Aaron Parsons
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 Mar 2025
On Tour
6 February – 10 May 2025
This 80-minute version of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest uses an edited version of the original play to create the perfect introduction for young people aged 7-13 and their families.
The Director and Movement Director is Aaron Parsons; Set and Costume Designer, Aldo Vazquez, Composer and Sound Designer, Jack Drewry; Fight Director, Tom Jordan, Casting Director, Matthew Dewsbury CDG and Dramaturg Olivia Poglio-Nwabli.
The Tempest will tour to theatres, schools and community venues from 6 February to 10 May 2025, and comes to The Other Place from 25-29 March. For full tour dates, visit https://www.rsc.org.uk/first-encounters-the-tempest/
BOOKING INFORMATION
Ticket Discounts:
Discounts are available for Over 65s, Disabled People and Carers, Families, UK School and College Groups and Groups of 10 or more. Terms and conditions apply. See the website rsc.org.uk or call the Box Office on 01789 331111 for more details and to buy tickets.
Assisted Performances:
The RSC offers a range of assisted performances on selected dates throughout the year. A list of upcoming dates and booking detail is available HERE.
NOTES TO EDITORS
The RSC is supported using public funding by Arts Council England
The work of the RSC is supported by the Culture Recovery Fund
The RSC is generously supported by RSC America
Darwin Escapes – Summer Theatre Sponsor
Pragnell – Craft and Design Sponsor
The Swan’s Nest Hotel – Summer Activities Sponsor
With thanks to Season Supporter Charles Holloway OBE
Measure for Measure is supported by RSC Production Circle Members Ian and Serrie Meakins
RSC £10 Tickets for 14-25s supported by TikTok
The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
New Work at the RSC is generously supported by Hawthornden Foundation and The Drue and H.J. Heinz II Charitable Trust
Assisted Performances at the RSC are kindly supported by The Saintbury Trust and The Boshier-Hinton Foundation
Tours of First Encounters: The Tempest and King Lear are supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
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