On Shakespeare's birthday, the BBC and the RoyaI Shakespeare Company come together in an extravaganza, celebrating Shakespeare's words and his enduring influence on all performance art forms - from BerIioz and Bernstein, to hip-hop and jazz, from ballet 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, including Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKeIIen, HeIen Mirren, Gregory Porter, Joseph Fiennes, AkaIa, EngIish NationaI Opera, The RoyaI BalIet, Meera SyaI, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rufus Wainwright, lan Bostridge and Antonio Pappano, Birmingham Royal BaIIet, Rory Kinnear, Rufus Hound, Henry Goodman, The Shires, David Suchet, Simon RusseIl Beale, Roger AIIam, Antony Sher, Harriet WaIter, John Lithgow, Alexandra Gilbreath, Tim Minchin, Anne-Marie Duff, Pippa Nixon, Alison Moyet, Orchestra of the Swan, the cast of HorribIe Histories and Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Shakespeare Live! From The RSC is produced for teIevision 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 PhiI DoIIing, Head of Events. Part of the BBC’s partnership with the RSC. |