The Three Musketeers

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Porthos Ayesha Antoine

This is Ayesha's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Eureka Day (Gate), Between Riverside And Crazy (Hampstead), Out West: Go, Girl (Lyric Hammersmith), Blank (Donmar), White Teeth (Kiln), Napoleon Disrobed (Told By An Idiot, Theatre Royal Plymouth / Arcola / Birmingham Rep / Stephen Joseph, Scarborough), Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company at RADA), Life of Galileo (Young Vic), Dirty Great Love Story (Arts Theatre), Trade (Young Vic), The Suicide (National Theatre), Red Velvet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company / Garrick), The Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes (Tricycle), The Ghost Train (Told By An Idiot, Manchester Royal Exchange), The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle), Venice Preserv'd (The Spectator's Guild), We Are Proud to Present... (Bush), Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep), Absurd Person Singular (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Eclipse Theatre), The Mountaintop (Guildhall Theatre, Derby), My Wonderful Day (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough / 59e59 Theaters Off Broadway / UK Tour), Big White Fog (Almeida) 

Film includes: Girl, Artemis Fowl, This Time (Short), Win (Short)  

Television includes: Bergerac (UKTV), Queenie (Channel 4 / Hulu), Grace, Endeavour (ITV), Both Sides Now, In the Long Run (Sky), Cursed (Netflix), Malory Towers, The Long Song, Pompidou, Bellamy's People, Mouth to Mouth, Holby City, Doctor Who, Grange Hill (BBC), Chewing Gum (Channel 4), Skins (E4)

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The Plot Teller Aitor Basauri

This is Aitor's RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Servant of Two Masters (Sheffield Crucible), Axomate (Seville Expo), Eulenspiegel, Karl’s Kuhne Gassenchau’s Grand Paradis, Stau in Zurich (Spymonkey, various venues)Senor Carrera’s Rifles (Young Vic). As Director: Little Prince (Donkey Productions), Un Vento Impetuoso (La Canoppia), Meci Y Me Fui (Pez Enraya)

Circus includes: Circus Knie, Swiss State Circus, Punto Fijo

Directing includes: Lily & Marlene (La Dinamica), Looking for Duende (Teatro Entre Escombros), Hondycops (Squadra Sua), Ferucchio Peru is Extraordinaire (Leebo Luby), Manifest Destiny (New York), Fabulous Bäckström Brothers (Finland), Entre Escobros ‘600 Teatro’ (Spain), Gloriator (Skipstick Productions, London), NMIIDP (Simone Riccio, London), Herr Ist Immer Der Natur (Die Drei Auf Den Baum), Discombobulated (Publick Transport), Ramshackadelicious (Bristol), Shake (The Last Baguette). As Director of Physical Comedy: Mack & Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre). As Co-Director: Orpheus in the Underworld (Vienna Volksoper Operahouse)

Television includes: Solstrom (Bravo Cable Network)

Other: Aitor isounder, co-creator and performer Spymonkey, the UK’s leading physical comedy ensemble, based in Brighton. He is an acclaimed teacher of clown, regularly leading Spymonkey training in London, New York, Maine, Los Angeles and around the world, and for the Clown Doctors organisation in Germany, Austria and France.

Image credit © Barbara Palffy

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D'Artagnan Simon Oskarsson

This is Simon's RSC debut

Theatre includes: North by Northwest (US Tour - Emma Rice Company), Dear Evan Hansen (2Enterain / Intiman Teatern), A Child’s Christmas in Wales (The Lucky Chance - Emma Rice Company), Hadestown (Carré), North by Northwest (UK Tour - Emma Rice Company), Hadestown (Lyric Theatre), The Book Thief (Leicester Curve), Robin Hood. The Legend. Re-written, 101 Dalmatians and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park), Claus – the Musical (The Lowry, Manchester), Assassins (Watermill / Nottingham Playhouse), Kärlek Skonar Ingen (Love Spares Nobody) (Gothenburg Opera House), Julia Capulet (Lilla Beddinge Teater), Kiss Me, Kate (Sheffield Crucible), ÖGONBLICK (LDMG scholarship residency), To Paint the Earth (Southwark Playhouse), Return to the Forbidden Planet (Upstairs at the Gatehouse)

Television includes: So Awkward (CBBC / BBCiPlayer), The National Television Awards, Olivier Awards 

Short film includes: Unity of Opposites, 03:03

Recording includes: Hadestown (Original West End Cast Recording), The Book Thief (Cast Recording), Dead or Alive (Cast Recording)

Workshops include: COMPANY (Broadway) 

Voiceover includes: Warthunder

Trained: Arts Educational Schools London

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Aramis Patricia Rodriguez

This is Patricia's RSC debut

Patricia is a performer, director and playwright with 30 years’ international experience. 

Theatre includes: The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe), Nothing Happens (Twice), Derailed, Don Quixote, You & Me (Little Soldier, Touring Productions), Heads Will Roll, Get Happy (Told by an Idiot), Muckers (Conde Duque / Theatre Royal), No Way Out (Flight of the Scales), Ancestry (Tucan Riot, in development). As Co-writer and DIrector: Deadpan Karaoke (Ibuprofeno), Orsai (Teatro del Cuervo), caLORCAlor (Guayominí. Best Children’s Show in Asturias Awards 2023). As Co-writer, Director and Performer: Hamlet (Guayominí. Best Family Show Almagro 2025)

Teaching includes: Philippe Gaulier School (France), East 15 Acting School (UK), University of Leeds (UK), and international workshops in physical theatre, devising and comedy.

Other: Co-Founder of Little Soldier and Las Ganas (Spain). International performances in France, USA, Mexico, Spain, Poland, China, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Germany.

Trained: Philippe Gaulier, Aitor Basauri, John Wright, Paul Hunter 

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Athos Sophie Russell

Previous RSC includes: As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Drunks, American Trade, Oxygen 

Theatre includes: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two, Henry V, Henry Vl, Richard lll, Emilia (Shakespeare's Globe), The Prudes, The Wolf From The Door, Collaborations (Royal Court Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Liverpool Playhouse / Spymonkey), Mrs Hudson’s Christmas Corker (Wilton's Music Hall / Spymonkey), Every Last Trick (Northampton Theatre Royal), You Can’t Take It With You (Told By An Idiot / Manchester Royal Exchange), Spyski! (Lyric Hammersmith), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic),  Get Happy, Stories from An Invisible Town (Barbican) 

Television includes: Kisses and Bumflicks, Living in Fear (Sky), I Hate Suzie (Sky / Bad Wolf), Casualty (BBC), Wire in the Blood (ITV) 

Film includes: The Invisible Woman, How I Got Here 

Trained: Middlesex University and ENSATT Paris

The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation