Much Ado About Nothing

'Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps’

It’s all kicking off in Messina. The winners are back from the action and a celebrity wedding is on the cards. But not everyone wants the big day to go without a hitch.

Michael Longhurst, fresh from his tenure as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse (Next To Normal, The Band’s Visit, Constellations) directs Freema Agyeman as Beatrice and Nick Blood as Benedick in Shakespeare’s original rom-com relocated to the world of top-flight football, where scandal-filled rivalries could undermine the final result.

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Titus Andronicus

'Blood and revenge are hammering in my head'

When victorious general Titus Andronicus executes his enemy’s son in a merciless show of vengeance, he has no idea of the evil his actions will incite. As the two sides trade violent acts of retribution, one man revels in the bloodbath.

Director Max Webster, whose recent credits include Macbeth with David Tennant 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.

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Hamlet Hail to the Thief

Shakespeare’s great tragedy and Radiohead’s seminal album collide for a feverish experience that fuses theatre, music, and movement.

In this frenetic distillation of Shakespeare's masterpiece, music becomes an integral part of the narrative. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has reworked the band’s critically acclaimed album into a deconstructed score that illuminates the text and is performed by live musicians.

The production is co-created by Yorke and celebrated directors, Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones. Their projects together as choreographer and designer include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, American Idiot and Let the Right One In.

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The Constant Wife

'I can't help it if you were careless with your cigarette case. I was extremely careful with your heart'

Constance has everything, but when her perfect set up is threatened, she fights back and refuses to play by the rules.

RSC Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey (Pericles) and playwright Laura Wade (Posh, Rivals) reunite after their Olivier Award-winning collaboration, Home, I’m Darling, to reimagine Somerset Maugham’s subversive comedy in a sparkling new version with Rose Leslie as our 1920s heroine with a decidedly modern spirit.

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4.48 Psychosis

'I dreamt that I went to the doctors, and she gave me eight minutes to live. I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room for half an hour'

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 Winter's Tale

‘It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't'

Unjustly accused of infidelity, Hermione is rejected by her jealous husband, separated from her daughter and her young son dies. Years later, fate offers reconciliation in the most magical of circumstances.

Shakespeare's story of love, loss and rebirth is directed by Yaël Farber, making her RSC debut.

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!'

Valentine and Proteus are best friends. That is, until Silvia comes along, and their lifelong friendship is put in serious jeopardy. Can they all find their happily-ever-after?

A love triangle, a forest, disguises, and a dog – The Two Gentlemen of Verona has it all. 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 edit that’s the perfect introduction to Shakespeare for families.

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Fat Ham

'It’s amazing what fathers think they own of their sons just cause we share a name'

Uninvited guests are one thing. Uninvited ghosts are quite another. 

From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.

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.

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Measure For Measure

‘To whom should I complain? Who would believe me?’

When her brother falls foul of the state’s rigid morality laws, Isabella is sent to plead for his life. But a world of ambition and base appetite lurks behind the high idealism of public office, and soon the complex relationship between power and private citizen threatens to end her life as she knows it.

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, Measure for Measure, playing in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre this autumn.

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The BFG

‘Once you is knowing dreams is real… you is seeing them very easily’

One extraordinary night, a young orphan named Sophie is snatched by a giant and taken far away to Giant Country.

While other giants terrorise the world, her new friend the BFG ignites Sophie's imagination, and they devise a daring plan to save children everywhere. In the end, the smallest human bean and the gentlest giant prove that a dream can change the world.

Gather your chiddlers to see Roald Dahl’s unforgettable story come to life. Tom Wells’ new adaptation is directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans.

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