Cast and Creatives

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Viola Gwyneth Keyworth

This is Gwyneth's RSC debut season.

Theatre includes: To Kill a Mockingbird (Gielgud Theatre), As You Like It, Heresy of Love (Globe Theatre), The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (Bristol Old Vic), Raising Martha (Park Theatre)

Television includes: Death Valley, Lost Boys & Fairies, The Trouble with Maggie Cole, Alex Ryder, Defending The Guilty, The Crown, Craith, Black Mirror, Bang, Wasted, Dr Thorne, Suspicions of Mr Witcher, Vodka Diaries, Misfits.

Film includes: The Toll, Elfie Hopkins, Closer To The Moon.  

 

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Malvolio Samuel West

RSC includes: Hamlet, Richard II. As director: As You Like It (Swan Complete Works), Hamlet (RSC Fringe). 

Theatre includes: The Writer (Almeida), Enron (Royal Court and West End), Betrayal (Donmar), Ivanov and Trigorin in the Young Chekhov season (Chichester), Caryl Churchill’s A Number (Sheffield and Cape Town) and Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (Public Theater New York), Arcadia (National Theatre). 

Screen includes: All Creatures Great and Small, Slow Horses, The Crown, W1A, Small Axe, Mr Selfridge, Cambridge Spies and the films Darkest Hour, The Gentlemen, Howards End, On Chesil Beach, Suffragette, Van Helsing, Notting Hill, Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre, Archipel (in French), Hyde Park on Hudson and the voice of Pongo in Disney’s 101 Dalmatians II.

Radio: plays by Pinter, Coward, Frayn, Stoppard, Giles Terera and his partner Laura Wade. 

As a reciter, he has appeared with all the major British orchestras and at the Last Night of the Proms. He’s also narrated lots of documentaries and more than 100 audiobooks. Sam has directed 13 plays and two operas: Così fan tutte for English National Opera and The Magic Flute for the Palestine Mozart Festival. From 2006 to 2008 he ran the Sheffield Crucible, where he revived Howard Brenton’s The Romans in Britain

In various media Sam has played Brutus, Hal, Henry V, Coriolanus, Benedick, Bertram, Bassanio, Macduff, Octavius, Demetrius and the Bishop of Winchester. He is an Associate Artist of the RSC and a trustee of the Campaign for the Arts.

  • Royal Shakespeare Theatre

    Stratford-upon-Avon

    5 Dec 2024 - 18 Jan 2025 Book Tickets
  • Running time:

    To be confirmed

Next performance:

5 December, 7:15PM

Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon