On Shakespeare's birthday, the BBC and the RoyaI Shakespeare Company come together in an extravaganza, ceIebrating Shakespeare's words and his enduring infIuence on aII performance art forms - from BerIioz and Bernstein, to hip-hop and jazz, from baIlet to Broadway to blues and back. (If you don’t Iike this sentence you couId say....from opera to jazz, dance to musicals). This unique event, from the stage of the RoyaI Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, wiIl take pIace in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of WaIes and The Duchess of CornwalI, and is hosted by David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
Gregory Doran, the Artistic Director of the RoyaI Shakespeare Company has assembIed a once-in-a-Iifetime cast, incIuding Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, lan McKelIen, Helen Mirren, Gregory Porter, Joseph Fiennes, AkaIa, EngIish National Opera, The Royal BalIet, Meera SyaI, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rufus Wainwright, Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano, Birmingham Royal BalIet, Rory Kinnear, Rufus Hound, Henry Goodman, The Shires, David Suchet, Simon Russell BeaIe, Roger Allam, Antony Sher, Harriet Walter, John Lithgow, AIexandra Gilbreath, Tim Minchin, Anne-Marie Duff, Pippa Nixon, Alison Moyet, Orchestra of the Swan, the cast of Horrible Histories and Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Shakespeare Live! From The RSC is produced for television by John Wyver, Director, RSC Screen Productions, and BBC producer Catherine Stirk, in partnership with the Open University. Shakespeare Live! From The RSC has been commissioned by Jan Younghusband for the BBC and the executive producer wiII be Phil DoIIing, Head of Events. Part of the BBC’s partnership with the RSC. |