Jerwood
Vanbrugh Theatre
The Knight
of the Burning Pestle
by Francis Beaumont
Directed by Nick Hutchison
Designed by Delia Peel
Thursday 21 October
- Saturday 30 October at 7.30pm
Matinée: Saturday 30 October at 2.30pm
Tickets: £11.00, Friends of RADA £7.00, Concessions £8.00
Friends' Night: Monday 25 October, includes an aftershow discussion
with the director and cast. FREE to Friends of RADA, £3.00 for
non-Friends
The most easily
enjoyable satire on London and its citizens from the Jacobean period
was first staged at the intimate Blackfriars Theatre by one of Shakespeare's
major successors.
Breaking through the established conventions, dissatisfied members
of an audience, a nouveau riche grocer and his wife, invade the stage
to demand that the actors change the play they are offering in order
to celebrate the city merchants in heroic style, and for want of another
actor insist that their apprentice, Rafe, be given the leading part.
The result is an hilarious, often anarchic entertainment with a plot
that is constantly redirected by the grocer to the astonishment and
bewilderment of the actors.
An exuberant start to the Autumn Season directed by ex-RSC actor,
Nick Hutchison.
John
Gielgud Theatre
The Madness of Esme and Shaz
by Sarah Daniels
Directed by Heather Davies
Tuesday 23 November - Saturday 4 December at 7.15pm
Matinées: Saturday 27 November at 2.15pm
Tickets: £11.00, Friends of RADA £7.00, Concessions £8.00
First seen at
the Royal Court Theatre in 1994 this moving and unlikely comedy features
the gun-toting Aunt Esme and her tearaway niece, Shaz. From a bleak
situation which offers little hope comes a love-story of true friendship.
When those who have never known love and barely recognise it are touched
by their feelings they are changed forever and something beautiful
emerges.
Sarah Daniels is now recognised as one of the leading women dramatists
to have risen to prominence in the 1980's and 90's. The range and
power of her work is remarkable and this play of contemporary life
is among her most original
GBS
Theatre
On
the Razzle
By Tom Stoppard
Adapted from Einen Jux en sich machen by Johann Nestroy
Directed by David Tucker
Wednesday 24 November
- Saturday 4 December at 7.45pm
Matinées: Saturday 27 November and Wednesday 1 December at
2.45pm
Tickets: £11.00, Friends of RADA £7.00, Concessions £8.00
This brilliant
and witty farce, a hit of the National Theatre season in 1981, is
typical of the delightful word play for which Top Stoppard is renowned.
His source is a cynical comedic play by one of Austria's foremost
nineteenth century dramatists.
The plot is the basic one of "while the cat's away the mice will
play". In this case a pompous shop owner goes in pursuit of marriage
in Vienna, which happens to be celebrating a "scottish festival".
The hilarious twists and turns of the story lead all the characters
a merry dance as his apprentice and assistant go "on the razzle".
Jerwood
Vanbrugh Theatre
The Rivals
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by Bardy Thomas
Designed by Gary Thorne
Thursday 25 November
- Saturday 4 December at 7.30pm
Matinée: Saturday 4 December at 2.30pm
Tickets: £11.00, Friends of RADA £7.00, Concessions £8.00
Friends' Night: Monday 29 November, includes an aftershow discussion
with the director and cast. FREE to Friends of RADA, £3.00 for
non-Friends
Sheridan's classic
comedy is a work of near genius which exemplifies the highest form
of the realistic comedy of the latter half of the eighteenth century.
'The path of true love never did run smooth' and so it is for the
bookish Lydia Languish and the dashing Captain Absolute and her friend
Julia with the agonised passion of her beau, Faulkland.
And amidst all this turbulent romance is the incomparable Mrs Malaprop,
whose inability to master the English language is no impediment to
her wish to express herself in as fulsome and literary a style as
she aspires to. Add a dash of Irish fire in Sir Lucius O'Trigger and
a loveable country bumpkin in Bob Acres and you have the perfect comic
cocktail.
Dean of Studies, Bardy Thomas, returns to the rehearsal room to direct.
Friends Christmas
Event
The Friends of
RADA are invited to attend a Christmas party to meet members of Council
and staff. The party will be centred on the exhibition in the GBS
Theatre of work by students graduating from the specialist technical
courses, and will also provide the opportunity to meet the students
and talk to them about their work.
Tickets are £10.00 per person for mince pies and wine.
RADA Foyer Bar
Thursday 9 December from 7.00pm
Special Friends
Events
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
directed by Stephen Beresford
Albery Theatre,
St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 5AU
Tuesday 12 October at 7.30pm
A monsoon on the
Arabian Sea wrecks a ship on the rocks. Twins Viola and Sebastian
are separated, and when Viola is eventually washed ashore on the island
of Illyria the complications begin.
This new production
of Shakespeare's comedy transposes the action from Illyria to contemporary
India. With its honour codes, the rules of marriage, holy men, beliefs
and significance of festival, the Indian setting is intended to find
a fresh, contemporary relevance to the world of the play.
This is Stephen
Beresford's directing debut and an ideal opportunity for the Friends
of RADA to show their support. The production also stars RADA graduates
Shereen Martineau and Neil D'Souza. Friends of RADA can see this performance
for just £21.00, and this price includes a glass of wine in
the interval (please specify your preference for red or white wine
when booking your tickets). To avoid disappointment please book early
through the RADA Box Office
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Michael Boyd
Albery Theatre,
St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 5AU
Monday 6 December
at 7.30pm
The King of Denmark
is dead and has been succeeded by his brother Claudius who has also
married Gertrude, the widowed Queen. Hamlet, Gertrude's son, is already
distressed by his father's death and the hasty remarriage and when
his father's ghost appears to tell him that he had been murdered by
Claudius, Hamlet vows revenge.
This season the
RSC has introduced the innovative policy of public performances featuring
the understudy cast. This performance features recent RADA graduate
Trystan Gravelle playing Hamlet. Friends of RADA can see the performance
for just £25.00, and this price includes a glass of wine in
the interval (please specify your preference for red or white wine
when booking your tickets).
To avoid disappointment please book early.
Tickets are available to Friends of RADA through the Academy Box Office.
RADA
Tours
Visit the stunning newly developed buildings in Gower Street and Malet
Street.
See the three new theatres and the facilities available to the students
during their course.
Learn
about the beginnings of the Academy, the involvement of its graduates
and the
Academy’s future development.
Your
guide will be a RADA graduate who will give you an insight into the
Academy
from a student’s point of view.
Graduate
tours are available on Fridays 22 and 29 October,
26 November and 3 December at 5.30 pm.
Public
tours are available on Saturdays 23 and 27 November at 12.30 pm.
To
book a place on one of these tours,
please contact Chris Deakin on 020 7908 4737.
Price for tours is £6 per person.
Places
are limited so please book early.
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