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📢Booking is now open for our 2024 season
Join us for nine plays, by nine incredible playwrights, across nine months filled with homegrown talent, international collaborations and world-renowned artists - a truly unmissable season of new theatre.
See you there...
🎟️…
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CYPRUS AVENUE by David Ireland is now online to watch, wherever you are, for free. This is the first time David Ireland's award-winning play starring Stephen Rea is available to watch internationally. Find out more:
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We are thrilled to announce the appointment of the Royal Court Theatre’s next Artistic Director, David Byrne.
David is the founding Artistic Director and CEO of New Diorama, one of London’s most vibrant new work theatres.
Read more:
📷 Tom Jamieson
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The Royal Court is shocked to learn that Mustafa Sheta & Jamal Abu Joas of
@freedom_theatre
have been arrested. We demand their immediate release.
Ahmed Tobasi was also arrested & has since been released. He is suffering injury as a result of being detained.
Full statement:
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BLACK LIVES MATTER. WE STAND TOGETHER IN PROTEST AND IN DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR GENERATIONS OF TRAUMA LEADING FROM SYSTEMIC RACISM.
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Just announced: Adelayo Adedayo, Inès De Clercq, Anne-Marie Duff, Paapa Essiedu, Martina Laird, Alex Lawther, Neil Maskell, Sinead Matthews, Rosamund Pike & Danielle Vitalis have been cast in
#MyWhiteBestFriend
(and Other Letters Left Unsaid).
More info:
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Alan Rickman was a massive, influential part of the Royal Court for many years. His life force and brilliance will be deeply missed.
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Jez Butterworth’s
#Jerusalem
will return to the West End in its original Royal Court production in April 2022 for 16 weeks, directed by Ian Rickson with Mark Rylance & Mackenzie Crook reprising their celebrated roles as Johnny “Rooster” Byron and Ginger.
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Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea (Cyprus Avenue) explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in this
@FinancialTimes
short film written by Clare Dwyer Hogg.
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HUGE NEWS 🚨
Following its sold out runs here at the Royal Court and at
@newdiorama
, the award-winning
#ForBlackBoys
by Ryan Calais Cameron is transferring to the West End for a limited 6-week run.
From 25 March at the Apollo Theatre.
📽️Black Apron
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Applications are now open for our Introduction to Playwriting Groups.
The groups are an opportunity for writers with little or no experience and lots of raw talent to think more deeply about writing for theatre alongside a group of their peers.
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Want to win two tickets for
#AKindOfPeople
and a one night stay for two at a Central London Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel?
Follow the Royal Court Twitter account and RT this tweet to be in with a chance of winning.
The competition will close at midnight on Sunday 29 Dec 2019.
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Ten Royal Court debuts. One Artistic Director. Nine writers.
Join us for a truly unmissable season of new theatre.
David Byrne’s first season sees nine playwrights make their Royal Court debuts - across nine months filled with homegrown talent, international collaborations and…
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Congratulations to
@RakieAyola
who has won the Best Female Actor in a Play Award at the Black British Theatre Awards tonight, for her performance as Noni in
#OnBearRidge
by Ed Thomas.
#theBBTAs
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We're delighted to announce Jane Fallowfield as our new Literary Manager.
Vicky Featherstone comments: “I’ve long been an admirer of Jane's work and can’t wait to see how she will take the Royal Court forward for the writers over the next few years.”
Photo: Helen Murray.
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Today we announce our 2018 Season which includes 10 world premieres as well as the reopening of the Samuel French Bookshop at the Royal Court. Full details are available here:
#RC2018
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ear for eye by debbie tucker green is available to read for free until 3 Sep here:
Shared in collaboration with
@NickHernBooks
.
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Following
#NoGreyArea
we have released our industry Code of Behaviour regarding sexual harassment & abuse of power.
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We’re really pleased that it’s resonated with so many people.
After listening to feedback, we’re opening up the age range for anyone over the age of 18, so that all adults that want to can participate. 2/3
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AD
@vicfeatherstone
programs day of action in response to
#Weinstein
revelations
#speakout
#greyareanomore
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We welcome the announcement last night from the government. Now the industry must work together across the whole country to support the freelancers, ensure inclusion is meaningful, learn from this time, and make great shows for our audiences.
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The writers are
Tim Crouch
Lemn Sissay
Caryl Churchill
Sabrina Mahfouz
Ed Thomas
Alistair McDowall
Eve Leigh
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Miriam Battye
Debris Stevenson
Jammz
E.V. Crowe
Al Smith
Sami Ibrahim
Somalia Seaton
Stef Smith
Pablo Manzi
Sarah Hanly
Aleshea Harris
Jude Christian
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Announcing Spring/Summer 2019 at the Royal Court which includes: 6 new plays, 3 new writing bursaries, 2 new co-productions and the return of our Playwright's Podcast.
Friends' booking opens Fri 26 Oct at noon
General booking opens Tue 30 Oct at noon
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#MyWhiteBestFriend
(and Other Letters Left Unsaid) - a festival of readings co-curated by Rachel De-Lahay & Milli Bhatia, produced by Tobi Kyeremateng, is moving online for a week from 13 Jul.
Tickets will go on sale on Mon 6 Jul at 12noon.
More info:
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Tonight we're lighting the Royal Court red as part of the
#WeMakeEvents
campaign, in solidarity with all the brilliant freelancers we work with and the whole events industry.
#freelancersmaketheatrework
#LightItInRed
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Today the Royal Court theatre says farewell to the incomparable Vicky Featherstone, after a decade as Artistic Director of the Royal Court.
📸 Jill Mead
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It was a pleasure to host
@NetflixUK
for a Q&A event yesterday on 'The Importance of Diversity in Casting & Nurturing New Voices' with the creative team behind the smash hit series
#Heartstopper
, moderated by Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.
📸Joanne Davidson
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Today we announce the cast for debbie tucker green's
#earforeye
, which opens next month. Find out more about the 16 actors here:
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We’re delighted, relieved & grateful to have received investment from the
@ace_national
@DCMS
@hmtreasury
#CultureRecoveryFund
today.
This, alongside the support from you, our audiences, enables us to sustain our work with writers & theatre-makers into a more secure future.
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Just announced: 'Passages: A Windrush Celebration' - seven films commissioned & curated by
@LynetteLinton
. Writers include
@RikkiBB
, Natasha Gordon,
@kwamekweiarmah
, Lynette Linton,
@JamWestman
&
@royboywilliams
. More info to follow.
#Windrush
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Introducing the cast of Dugsi Dayz by Sabrina Ali:
Susu Ahmed, Sabrina Ali, Faduma Issa and Hadsan Mohamud.
The original cast are reprising their roles, following an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe and sold-out national tour.
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David Ireland's hard hitting black comedy, Cyprus Avenue, was awarded Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and the James Tait Black Prize for Drama in 2017.
You can watch it for free on our website until April 26:
#CyprusAvenue
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Tonight, after 459 days, we cannot wait to welcome audiences back to these seats for the first preview of
#sevenmethodsofkillingkyliejenner
in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
#BackOnStage
#FirstPreview
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Just announced: In November 2020, we are reopening the doors of the Royal Court to create six weekly editions of a living newspaper.
Each edition will be available to watch in person at the Royal Court or online at home.
More info:
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Anouncing the cast of Abhishek Majumdar's
#PahLa
: Paul Chan, Tuyen Do, Zachary Hing, Daniel York Loh, Kwong Loke, Richard Rees, Gabby Wong, Millicent Wong.
Director: Debbie Hannan
Design: Lily Arnold
Lighting design: Jessica Hung Han Yun
Composition & sound design: Tom Gibbons
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We all at the Royal Court salute the mighty Helen McCrory. She was a phenomenal theatre artist of our times. Sending love to all feeling great sadness and shock at her loss.
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This year we produced five New York transfers:
- The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
- Hangmen by Martin McDonagh
- Cyprus Avenue by David Ireland
- Girls & Boys by Dennis Kelly
- The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
#RoyalCourt2018
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Dugsi Dayz by Sabrina Ali
Directed by Poppy Clifford
a
@sideYe_prods
production
The award-winning, break-out comedy: Four young British-Somali girls are stuck in detention at Mosque when a power cut hits, inspired by cult film The Breakfast Club.
'Rebellious, passionate and…
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Just announced: Jasmine Lee-Jones has been awarded the 2020 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for her play
#sevenmethodsofkillingkyliejenner
.
More info:
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We're looking for 12 theatre makers and creatives to take part in our NO BORDERS creative programme in collaboration with
@NastazjaDom
, designed to interrogate the politics of theatrical form.
Deadline: Mon 13 Dec, 6pm.
Find out more & apply:
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"It was the defining performance of Mark Rylance’s stage career. Now, it has been announced that Rylance will return to the role of Johnny “Rooster” Byron 12 years on, as is to be revived in the West End next year."
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"I found a king in me and now I love you
I found a king in you and now I love me."
Just announced: Ryan Calais Cameron's
#ForBlackBoysWhoHaveConsideredSuicideWhenTheHueGetsTooHeavy
is coming to the Royal Court.
More info:
Image: Guy J Sanders
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Competition Time.
Ahead of
#WhatIfIfOnly
opening tomorrow, we're giving you the chance to win 7 Caryl Churchill playtexts:
Serious Money
Pigs and Dogs
Cloud Nine
Here We Go
Top Girls
Escaped Alone
and What If If Only
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We’re so sad to hear of the passing of Louis Mahoney. A brilliant actor and the most wonderful human being; a devoted activist and extraordinary performer, he will be sorely missed. Here we remember him in our 2011 production of debbie tucker green’s truth and reconciliation.
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The new, permanent
@SamuelFrenchLtd
Bookshop is now open in our Balcony Bar. Come in Mon-Sat 11am-5:30pm for a huge range of plays, theatre books & a coffee from the new barista bar.
#samuelfrenchatroyalcourt
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We’re looking for performers to be involved in the development and performance of a new play by Travis Alabanza, directed by Debbie Hannan.
Closing date: Monday 28 February 2022 at 6pm.
Find out more:
#CastingCallout
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"We are not in the world to be good but to change it" Edward Bond 1934 – 2024.
With the passing of Edward Bond, we have lost one of the giants of the theatre world, a playwright whose plays not only reflected the times but shaped them. It was Bond’s plays that broke the power of…
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Yesterday we announced a programme of free workshops created to empower women & female leadership in the arts. More details to come soon but for now catch up on the news piece here:
#IWD2018
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Today we announce a year of work by 20 writers, from Sep 2019 to Aug 2020.
1 May: Supporters' booking
8 May: Friends' booking
15 May: General booking
More details here:
Want to book from next week? Become a Friend for £35:
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📆 Save The Date
On Mon 4 March, midday, we’re announcing our first season from new Artistic Director David Byrne.
From May 2024, nine bold new plays will bring fresh voices and big stories to our stages – all from writers making their Royal Court debuts.
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Bluets by Maggie Nelson
in a new stage adaptation by Margaret Perry
Directed by Katie Mitchell
Desire and depression. Pleasure and pain. A person possessed by a lifelong obsession with the colour blue. Performed by Emma D’Arcy, Kayla Meikle and Ben Whishaw.
Fri 17 May - Sat 29…
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This year’s Evening Standard award for Most Promising Playwright goes to Jasmine Lee-Jones for seven methods of killing kyle jenner - big congratulations to the whole team!
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The new, permanent
@SamuelFrenchLtd
bookshop opens in our Balcony Bar tomorrow. Pop in from 11am to browse a huge range of plays & theatre books, and grab a coffee from our new barista counter.
#samuelfrenchatroyalcourt
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Interested in writing for the stage? Applications are now open for our Introduction to Playwriting Group –8 sessions hosted by a leading playwright to help you develop your writing for live performance. Free and open to all ages. More info:
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We're delighted to announce the cast for the world premiere of Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., four plays written by Caryl Churchill and directed by James Macdonald.
Don’t miss this limited three week run.
#GlassKillBluebeardImp
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Today we open applications for Plays from ur notes app 🗒️
A nationwide callout for writers aged 18 – 27 to submit writing that either currently lives, or could live, in the notes app on a phone.
Deadline: 20 Sep, 10am.
More information:
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This Fri, we're releasing
#CyprusAvenue
by David Ireland online for a month. This is the first time David Ireland's award-winning play will be available to watch internationally.
Watch it for free on our website, Facebook, Youtube or Twitter from 12noon.
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The Royal Court Theatre announces new season of work for Autumn/Winter 2017/18. Details here:
#RCNewSeason
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Just announced: Next week we'll be sharing script-in-hand performances of Lucy Kirkwood's new play Maryland.
The play will be performed from Thu 7 Oct– Sat 16 Oct at 7.45pm.
#Maryland
More info:
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Just announced: Vicky Featherstone will step down after a decade as Artistic Director at the Royal Court.
Read more:
📸Jill Mead
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Congratulations to Alice Birch who has been awarded the 2018
#SusanSmithBlackburn
Prize for
#AnatomyOfASuicide
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Look out for the cast of
#ForBlackBoysWhoHaveConsideredSuicideWhenTheHueGetTooHeavy
who will be appearing on
@BBCLondonNews
at 1:30pm today
📸Ali Wright
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EXTRA WEEK ADDED FOR FOR BLACK BOYS... 💖
Due to popular demand,
#ForBlackBoysWhoHaveConsideredSuicideWhenTheHueGetsTooHeavy
will be extended for another week until 7 May.
Don’t miss your chance to catch this ★★★★★ “vibrant, deeply tender” production (Financial Times).
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To celebrate
#WorldBookDay
we're giving away a Royal Court Playtext Subscription with
@SamuelFrenchLtd
worth up to £93.
Get 10 Royal Court playtexts delivered to your door wherever you are in the world as soon as they're ready. Retweet to win. Winner announced tomorrow.
#WBD2019
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Arvon are offering two FREE places on this 5-day Playwriting Tutored Retreat in September for writers aged 18-29 on low-income. 🎭 Tutored by Ola Animashawun and Jessica Swale. Full fee will be covered by the David Pease Award. Deadline June 28.
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We're proud to announce the Lynne Gagliano Writer’s Award which will support a young writer aged 18-25, to undertake a paid writing assignment and be attached to the Royal Court for a year.
The award is a continuation of Lynne’s invaluable legacy.
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Fisayo Akinade, Rakie Ayola, Tadhg Murphy and Ria Zmitrowicz have been cast in The Glow by Alistair McDowall. Directed by the Royal Court Artistic Director, Vicky Featherstone.
21 Jan - 05 March 2022.
Book now:
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In our effort to
#PassOnPlastic
, our Bar & Kitchen:
- no longer offers plastic straws
- only serves drinks in reusable, recycled cups
- serves nuts in fully compostable, bioplastic containers
- will soon be sending all food waste to be turned into biogas
#WorldOceansDay
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Submissions for Introduction to Playwriting 2023-24 are now open✍️
The groups are an opportunity for writers with little or no experience to think more deeply about writing for theatre.
Find out more about Introduction to Playwriting and how to apply:
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You can now apply for our upcoming Introduction to Playwriting groups, led by writers we are excited by & currently working with.
We assign places based on potential rather than experience; what's most important is your thirst to write a play.
More info
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As the statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town in 2015, seven students wrote
#TheFall
.
The play goes to the heart of how race, class, gender, power and history’s voices intersect.
Watch it online here:
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We're delighted to announce that Trybe House Theatre is now an Associate Company at the Royal Court.
@TrybeHouse
seeks to actively build resilience and self-wellbeing, primarily with young black men aged 16- 25, using theatre as a supportive outlet
Link:
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Applications for the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting groups are now open.
The closing date for completed applications is Wednesday 28 July at midday.
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Jasmine Lee-Jones has been announced as the recipient of this year's Alfred Fagon Award for
#sevenmethodsofkillingkyliejenner
Here's Jasmine and the show's director, Milli Bhatia, today with the award.
More info:
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Exciting news -
#earforeye
by debbie tucker green, which originally opened at the Royal Court in 2018, has been adapted into a feature film for
@BBCTwo
and will be released in Spring 2021.
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Today we announce our commitment to transitioning to a Carbon Net Zero Arts Venue through 2020 and onwards.
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We're delighted to announce the 3 writers awarded the first Royal Court & Kudos Writing Fellowships are: Rabiah Hussain, Lettie Precious and Ross Willis.
Find out more about what's in store for the writers over the next 6 months here:
Photo: Ali Wright
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12 playwrights. 10 episodes. 1 brand new series.
The Playwrights Podcast with Susan Wokoma. New episodes dropping Monday 11 March. Stay tuned 🎙️
📽️ Emily Maguire
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Just announced:
#ShoeLady
by E.V. Crowe will be broadcast on
@BBCRadio4
for
#LockdownTheatreFestival
as part of BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine.
The festival is launching with four plays that had their runs cancelled or cut short by the pandemic:
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Meet the cast of
#LivingNewspaper
Edition 3:
Isabel Adomakoh Young
Deborah Bahi
Nigel Barrett
Susan Brown
Tom Fisher
Beth Hinton-Lever
Tony Jayawardena
Scott Karim
Ms Sharon Le Grand
Lucy Mangan
Sophie Melville
Siobhan McSweeney
Tom Mothersdale
Caleb Obediah
Sukh Ojla
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Just announced: Queer Upstairs, presented by the Royal Court and
@TheQueerHouse
, will share new pieces of work from Enxi Chang, Jamal Gerald, Mika Onyx Johnson, Lauren John Joseph, Nemo Martin, Pete MacHale, mandla rae, Amelia Stubberfield and Yaz Zadeh.
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Our Front of House team had the pleasure of helping
@IanMcKellen
celebrate his 80th birthday last week as he brought his solo performance to Sloane Square.
Thank you for being a part of
#SupportTheCourt
.
Photo credit: Robert Smael
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New season of work just announced for Feb-Sep 2017. Check the full details here:
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Tonight, as part of the
#StandWithBelarus
campaign by
@BFreeTheatre
, & exactly one month on from the presidential elections, we're lighting up the Royal Court in the white-red-white colours of the Belarusian flag to show solidarity with repressed artists & people of
#Belarus
.
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of Living Archive, our first ever online archive.
This digital resource holds information on every play which has ever been presented on our stages from when we opened in 1956 to now, totalling almost 2000 works by over 1000 writers.
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Meet the writers in our 2024 season:
Sabrina Ali, Dugsi Dayz
‘A lot of the characters I write now are a reflection of the people in my life’
Sabrina Ali is a British Somali writer and actor, who is driven by a passion for sharing authentic and representative stories.
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Just announced: the Royal Court production of Dennis Kelly’s
#GirlsAndBoys
will transfer to New York’s Minetta Lane Theatre with Carey Mulligan, produced by
@audible_com
. Click here for more information:
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Casting announcement: Alun Armstrong, Maggie Steed & Nicola Walker have been cast in Mark Ravenhill's
#TheCane
, directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.
6 Dec - 26 Jan | Book now:
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“Don't be a d*ck. Kindness costs nothing.”
Stef O'Driscoll, Director of
#AHistoryOfWater
, shares her advice for emerging directors in
@WhatsOnStage
.
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We're proud to collaborate w/
@KudosTv
to create three Fellowships: £10,000 bursaries for three writers to allow them to focus purely on their writing for 6 months. Plus: see shows, meet established writers & join discussions.
Deadline 16 Nov.
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📢 Introducing the directors of the first two plays in our New Plays: International series, starting next week in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs...
Cabin Fever by Michaela Spencer will be directed by Rebekah Murrell
Scam-Uh-Life by Jherad Alleyne will be directed by Emily Aboud
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We're extending the run of Maryland until Sat 23 Oct.
Alongside this, the Maryland performance script will be offered for free for any theatre company or drama training organisation in the UK who is interested to stage their own script-in-hand reading over the next 6 weeks.
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Just announced: We're partnering with Eve Leigh, Rachel Bagshaw and the artists who created
#MidnightMovie
which premiered at the Royal Court last year, to share
#InvisibleSummer
- a new multimedia play for your inbox.
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