Shakespeare enthusiasts in the USA will be pleased to learn that the UK-based Royal Shakespeare Company will be crossing the pond for an unprecedented run of performances as part of Lincoln Center Festival 2011.The ensemble of 44 will be bringing with them a full scale replica of its transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Americans will be able to see performances on the world's greatest Shakespeare stage without even having their passports stamped!
The 930-seat replica theater will be erected in New York and will host 45 performances in July and August 2011. Five plays will be selected from the RSC's current repertoire: Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and The Winter's Tale.Michael Boyd, RSC Artistic Director, said "Collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do at the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is why I am so pleased that we are able to work with such great partners to bring the culmination of three years' work in the UK to New York in 2011.""Our thrust stage, wrapping the audience around the action, allows people to reach out to our actors and to each other in a space which is both intimate and powerful. I am delighted that we can recreate that intimacy right here in New York City."I recently reported that the Royal Shakespeare Company will be shipping over to New York a full-scale replica of its Stratford-upon-Avon theater for a repertoire of five plays in 2011. I can't get over the scale of this project - so I've been looking into what the RSC will be packing in their suitcase.·
425 x costumes· 20 x wigs· 38 x fake facial hair pieces (15 beards, 15 moustaches, 5 sideburns, 2 joke beards and one set of eyebrows)· 20 x liters of blood·
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