Nigel Lindsay - Bolingbrook

Nigel Lindsay and David Tennant will be reunited on the stage in Richard II.  Nigel has been cast as Henry Bolingbroke – Duke of Hereford, son of John of Gaunt, later King Henry IV.

They starred together with Jim Broadbent in the 2003 premiere of Pillowman at The National.

Nigel played one of the detectives that interrogate David's character on stage, here is a photo of them from that performance.

NOVEMBER 13, 2013 UK SHOWING OF RICHARD II - CINEMA LIST AND BOOKING LINK

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RSC Announces Cinema showing of Richard II

David Tennant's Shakespeare performance to play live in cinemas

Sold-out performance in King Richard II to be relayed live around the world and streamed into 1,000 British schools

It's too late to book tickets to see David Tennant tackle Shakespeare's flawed and doomed King Richard II: every bookable seat for both Stratford-upon-Avon and London has already been sold, even though it doesn't open until next autumn.

But the Royal Shakespeare Company is to announce on Tuesday that the production will be relayed live to cinemas around the world – and also streamed, free, into 1,000 British schools.

But the RSC director, Greg Doran, said he has been interested for years in the best way to convey the immediacy of theatre through the medium of film.

"I've been thinking about this ever since Antony Sher and I filmed our production in South Africa with Anthony Sher as Titus Andronicus," he said.

"It's a magnificent opportunity to share the experience of live theatre with the widest possible audience, but I think it's very important that we find a way of re-imagining it for film; it mustn't just be like having a security camera peering at the stage.

"I also want to find a way of capturing something of the special experience of watching Shakespeare in his own town – there is something about Shakespeare in Stratford, this is the air that he breathed.

"The film of the 1959 production of the Dream opened with Charles Laughton, who played Bottom, out in the streets of Stratford, and the camera then follows him into the theatre – where you see a very young, slim Peter Hall sitting at the back of the stalls. I like that idea of opening the theatre out into the town. Maybe this time we'll start with David wandering around the souvenir shops buying fridge magnets."

The production, opening at Stratford in October, and the broadcast in the UK, North America, Australia, Japan and northern Europe, will be a highlight of Doran's first full season as artistic director at the RSC, and the first in a complete new cycle of the history plays, which will all be filmed. The production will be filmed on 13 November. On 15 November it will be streamed to schools, followed by a live Q&A introduced by the TV presenter Konnie Huq.

The Guardian - Maev Kennedy - May 27, 2013

It was reported in The Stage that the collaboration is with Picturehouse Entertainment and that ahead of the live broadcast, there will be a series of short films, which will include behind-the-scenes footage at the RSC, available online.

The shows will be filmed using multiple cameras around the stage and auditorium and will be produced by John Wyver, who has previously collaborated with the RSC on its filmed versions of Macbeth and Hamlet for television.

In a collaboration with digital technology university Ravensbourne College and education and research network Janet, the webcast will also include a live online question and answer session with Doran and Tennant.

Lighting

Tim Mitchell will be doing the lighting for the production.  He was the lighting designer for Hamlet in Stratford and London and Loves Labours Lost in 2008.


Here are more of his credits:
 

Tim Mitchell is an Associate of Chichester Festival Theatre where he has designed lighting for: The Master Builder, Yes Prime Minister, The Critic/Real Inspector Hound, Bingo, Oklahoma!, The Grapes of Wrath, Cyrano de Bergerac.

Other theatre includes: Racing Demon, An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible); Lend Me a Tenor (Plymouth); Cleopatra, Dracula (Northern Ballet Theatre); Morte d’Arthur, Twelfth Night (RSC); Darker Shores , Amongst Friends, Alphabetical Order (Hampstead Theatre); The History Boys, Arthur and George, East is East (Birmingham Rep). A Midsummer Night’s Dream (revival, and West End) and previously for the RSC: Coriolanus, Merry Wives The Musical, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Othello, Women Beware Women, most of which have also gone to Japan, USA or the West End; Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Washington/ Olivier Award nomination for the RSC’s production); Dirty Dancing (West End, Toronto, Utrecht, Berlin and USA tour, previously Hamburg); Noises Off (Broadway/ National Theatre/ West End/ UK tour); Cinderella (Old Vic); Nocturne, Big White Fog, The Lightning Play, Enemies, Blood Wedding (Almeida); Sleeping Beauty (Barbican/ New York); Elektra (Mariinsky Theatre Russia); Dracula, Hamlet (Northern Ballet Theatre); La Traviata (WNO Millennium Centre & Opus TV) and Ariadne Auf Naxos (WNO/ Boston Lyric Opera); Arsenic and Old Lace, The Real Thing, A Month in the Country (Salisbury Playhouse); Master Class (Theatre Royal Bath Tour); The History Boys (West Yorkshire Playhouse/ Theatre Royal Bath); When We Are Married (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Liverpool Playhouse); Glamour (Nottingham Playhouse); Imagine This (West End, previously Plymouth Theatre Royal); The Snowman (Korea/ Sadler’s Wells/ Birmingham Rep); Toyer (Arts Theatre, PW Productions); Bad Girls the Musical, Otherwise Engaged, As You Like It (West End); The Cherry Orchard (Sheffield Crucible); Merrily We Roll Along (Watermill Theatre); Hapgood, Alice in Wonderland (WYP & Birmingham Rep); Into The Woods (ROH, Linbury Studio); Lady and the Fool (Birmingham Royal Ballet).

I'm Sorry that Line is Engaged

This is the message that greeted visitors on the RSC website today March 18, 2013.  Booking for Richard II opened to the general public!

If you can't get Stratford tickets try The Barbican!

RSC releases first Merchandise - Official Poster

The RSC has now added the official poster to the online shop - a bargain at £5.00!  (£1.95 shipping in the UK £5.95 within the EU and £6.95) 

This is the dispatch times from their website:

"Most UK orders are sent through Royal Mail packet post; this is a 3 day service from dispatch. Overseas orders are sent by Airmail. For European destinations this is a 5-7 day service; for the rest of the world it is a 7-10 day service."

Click here to order.

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