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RSC Tackles Inner Worlds: Woolf & Clarke Novels Adapted
1 Oct
Summary
- RSC adapts Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' and Clarke's 'Piranesi'.
- Productions explore theatrical challenges of inner life.
- Season includes Shakespeare plays and other literary adaptations.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced a season that pushes theatrical boundaries with adaptations of Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' and Susanna Clarke's 'Piranesi'. Co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey highlighted these novels, written nearly a century apart, as central to exploring the age-old theatrical challenge of representing inner life.
Tamara Harvey will direct Zoe Cooper's adaptation of 'Mrs Dalloway,' opening in April in the Swan theatre. Harvey noted the adaptation's success in conveying the novel's stream-of-consciousness narrative, allowing audiences to access characters' thoughts and memories. This marks the third major adaptation of Woolf's novel in England within a year.
Daniel Evans will oversee the adaptation of Clarke's award-winning 'Piranesi,' directed by Ned Bennett. The novel, praised for its unique world-building, presents significant adaptation challenges, a prospect that excited director Ned Bennett. This production will also be staged in the Swan theatre.
Alongside these literary adaptations, the RSC's season includes new productions of Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus,' 'Richard II,' and 'Romeo and Juliet.' The company is also staging 'The Comedy of Errors' and 'Born With Teeth,' a play about Shakespeare and Marlowe. Other literary productions include 'Middlemarch' and 'The Three Musketeers.'
