A season of globally-inspired stories, exquisitely made and thrillingly told

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Welcome to the full second season of work from Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey.

This bold season is an exploration of old and new, with some of the world's best-known stories reimagined, and new stories brought to life.

Shows this season come from Malawi to Manhattan, taking us to French fields, Scottish heaths, mythical lands and Giant country.

Many renowned artists will be making their RSC debuts, alongside others continuing and deepening their collaboration with us, to tell stories that reimagine what’s possible.

Exquisitely made, full of inspiring global stories and thrillingly told, this season will connect us, create opportunities and bring joy.

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Hamlet Hail to the Thief

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

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The Constant Wife

Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Vigil) plays Constance, a 1920s heroine with a decidedly modern spirit.

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4.48 Psychosis

The original cast and creative team return to revisit Sarah Kane’s final masterpiece 25 years on

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The Winter's Tale

Immerse yourself in Shakespeare’s most mysterious play. Directed by Yaël Farber, with Bertie Carvel (Matilda the Musical) and Kathryn Hunter (Andor).

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

A love triangle, a forest, disguises and a dog. Shakespeare’s gloriously silly story of love, friendship and growing up.

Born With Teeth

Daniel Evans directs Ncuti Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare in this thrilling imagining of the relationship between two literary icons at odds with their time.

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Fat Ham

A sensitive and self-aware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma and violence in service of his own liberation.

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Next Generation: Timon of Athens

A collaborative new version of Shakespeare and Middleton’s morality fable by our Next Generation Act Young Company made up of young people from across England.

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First Encounters: King Lear

Our First Encounters production of King Lear will tour from September to December 2025.

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Measure For Measure

Shakespeare's razor-sharp thriller of hypocrisy and corruption.

Cyrano De Bergerac

Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester is Cyrano, fiercely funny and intensely romantic but with one large problem: his nose.

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Macbeth

Daniel Raggett returns to direct Shakespeare’s story power and ambition in the intimate setting of The Other Place, with Sam Heughan and Lia Williams.

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