Royal Shakespeare Company

World-class theater, made in Stratford-upon-Avon. From a classic staging of Julius Caesar to an inventive re-imagining of Hamlet set in the modern African Republic, the Royal Shakespeare company unlocks Shakespeare, bringing innovative and accessible productions to all.

Cast & Crew

David Tennant (Richard II), Gregory Doran (Director), William Shakespeare (Writer), Makram Khoury (Shylock), Patsy Ferran (Portia), Jamie Ballard (Antonio), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Bassanio), James Corrigan (Lorenzo), Polly Findlay (Director), Erica Whyman (Director), Karen Fishwick (Juliet), Bally Gill (Romeo), Charlotte Josephine (Mercutio), Ishia Bennison (Nurse), Paul Dodds (Montague), Josh Finan (Benvolio), Andrew French (Friar Laurence), Phillip Breen (Director), Antony Bunsee (Egeon, a merchant of Syracuse), Guy Lewis (Antipholus of Syracuse), Jonathan Broadbent (Dromio of Syracuse, his servant), Rowan Polonski (Antipholus of Ephesus), Greg Haiste (Dromio of Ephesus, Hedydd Dylan (Adrianna, Antipholus of Ephesus’ wife), Avita Jay (Luciana, Adrianna’s sister), Sarah Seggari (Luce, Adrianna’s maid), Zoe Lambert (Aemilia, an abbess), Nicholas Prasad (Solinus, Duke of Ephesus), William Grint (Second Merchant), Dyfrig Morris (Bodyguard), Baker Mukasa (Angelo, a goldsmith), Patrick Osborne (Balthasar, a merchant), Toyin Ayedun-Alase (Courtesan), Alfred Clay (Dr. Pinch), Riad Richie (First Merchant / Officer), Christopher Eccleston (Macbeth), Niamh Cusack (Lady Macbeth), Luke Newberry (Malcolm), Edward Bennett (Macduff), Bally Gill (Ross), Raphael Sowole (Banquo), Willaim Shakespeare (Writer), Royal Shakespeare Company (Writer), Rupert Cross (Composer), Melly Still (Director), Gillian Bevan (Cymbeline), Hiran Abeysekera (Posthumus), Bethan Cullinane (Innogen), Kelly Williams (Pisania), James Clyde (The Duke), Temi Wilkey (Philharmonia), Justin Audibert (Director), Joseph Arkley (Katherine), Hannah Azuonye (Pedant), Richard Clews (Grumio), Charlotte Arrowsmith (Curtis), Melody Brown (Vincentia), James Cooney (Bianco), Amelia Donkor (Hortensia), Andrew Woodall (Julius Caesar), James Corrigan (Marc Antony), Alex Waldmann (Brutus), Kristin Atherton (Calpurnia), Hannah Morrish (Portia), Jon Tarcy (Octavius Caesar), Martin Hutson (Cassius), Angus Jackson (Director), Blanche McIntyre (Director), Todd MacDonald (Director), Hayley Pepler (Director), John Wyver (Director), Bruce Alexander (King of France), Laila Alj (First Soldier), Micah Balfour (Older Dumain), Oscar Betterham (Lord 4/Second Soldier), Claire Benedict (The Countess), Sophie Cartman (Rinaldo/Duke of Florence), Callum Coates (Gentleman), Simon Coates (Lafeu), Matthew Duckett (Lord 3/First Gentleman), Will Edgerton (Lavache), Jessica Layde (Mariana), Funlola Olufunwa (Widow), Olivia Onyehara (Diana), Ewan Orton (Lord 2/Escalus/Messenger), Thom Petty (2nd Gentleman), Joeravar Sangha (Lord 1/Page/Antonio), Eloise Secker (Younger Dumain), Rosie Sheehy (Helena), Jamie Wilkes (Parolles), Benjamin Westerby (Bertram), David Troughton (Titus Andronicus), Patrick Drury (Marcus Andronicus), Martin Hutson (Saturninus), Kristin Atherton (Nurse), Hannah Morrish (Lavinia), Stefan Adegbola (Aaron), Nia Gwynne (Tamora), David Ajao (Pompey), Joseph Arkley (Lucio), Antony Byrne (Duke), James Cooney (Claudio), Sandy Grierson (Angelo), Lucy Phelps (Isabella), Claire Price (Escaslus), Antony Sher (Sir John Falstaff), Jasper Britton (King Henry IV), Alex Hassell (Prince Hal), Paola Dionisotti (Mistress Quickly), Trevor White (Hotspur), Joshua Richards (Bardolph), Alex Hassell (King Henry V), Jane Lapotaire (Queen Isobel), Sarah Parks (Mistress Quickly), Leigh Quinn (Alice), Simon Thorp (King of France), Sam Alexander (King of Navarre), Peter Basham (Butler), William Belchambers (Longaville), Edward Bennett (Berowne), Nick Haverson (Costard), Emma Manton (Jaquenetta), John Hodgkinson (Don Armado), Christopher Luscombe (Director), Owen Horsley (Director), Rhodri Huw (Director), Mark Quartley (King Henry VI), Mark Hadfield (Bishop of Winchester), Christopher Middleton (Duke of Gloucester), Jamie Ballard (Talbot), Michael Balogun (York), Bridgitta Roy (Warwick), Oliver Johnstone (Suffolk), Mimî M Khayisa (Somerset), Jamie Wilkes (Charles, the Dauphin), James Cooney (Alençon), Marty Cruickshank (Reignier), Liyah Summers (Orleans), Lily Nichol (Joan la Pucelle), Amanda Harris (Countess of Auvergne), Anna Leong Brophy (Burgundy), Mariah Gale (Margaret of Anjou), Sam Alexander (Don John), Edward Bennett (Benedick), Tunji Kasim (Claudio), Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Hero), Michelle Terry (Beatrice), David Horovitch (Leonato), Peter Basham (Butler/Francis Pickbone), Sope Dirisu (Coriolanus), Haydn Gwynne (Volumina), Paul Jesson (Menenius), Charles Aitken (Cominius), James Corrigan (Aufidius), Antony Sher (King Lear), Nia Gwynee (Goneril), Natalie Simpson (Cordelia), Paapa Essiedu (Edmund), James Clyde (Duke of Cornwall), Antony Byrne (Earl of Kent), Oliver Johnstone (Edgar), Fiona Laird (Director), David Acton (Sir Hugh Evans), Afolabi Ali (Pistol), Stevie Basaula (John Rugby/Robek), Ishia Bennison (Mistress Quickly), Katy Brittain (The Hostess of Garter), Beth Cordingly (Mistress Ford), Jonathan Cullen (Dr Caius), Mark Arends (Proteus), Michael Marcus (Valentine), Jonny Glynn (The Duke of Milan), Pearl Chanda (Julia), Sarah MacRae (Silvia), Leigh Quinn (Lucetta), Keith Osborn (Antonio), Simon Godwin (Director), Esh Alladi (Sebastian), Nicholas Bishop (Orsino), Tom Byrne (Valentine), Adrian Edmondson (Malvolio), Dinita Gohil (Viola), Beruce Khan (Feste), Luke Latchman (Curio), Eleanor Rhode (Director), Rosie Sheehy (King John), Bridgitta Roy (Queen Elinor), David Birrell (King of France), John Cummins (Pembroke), Sarah Agha (Citizen), Michael Abubakar (The Bastard), Ali Gadema (Essex), Michael Bruce (Composer), Salman Akhtar (Lucilus), James Clyde (Sempronius), Ralph Davis (Poet), Sagar l M Arya (Painter), Katheryn Hunter (Timon), Christopher Shutt (SoundDesign), Josette Simon (Cleopatra), Antony Byrne (Mark Antony), David Burnett (Pompey), Ben Allen (Octavius Caesar), Lucy Phelps (Octavia), Patrick Drury (Lepidus), Iqbal Khan (Director), Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet), Marcus Griffiths (Laertes), Cyril Nri (Polonius), Natalie Simpson (Ophelia), Clarence Smith (Claudius), Tanya Moodie (Gertrude), Hiran Abeysekera (Horatio), Hugh Quarshie (Othello), Lucian Msamati (Iago), Joanna Vanderham (Desdemona), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Cassio), Ayesha Dharker (Emilia), James Corrigan (Roderigo), Scarlett Brookes (Bianca), Niki Turner (SetDesign), Adjoa Andoh (Ulysses), Andy Apollo (Achilles), Charlotte Arrowsmith (Cassandra), Daisy Badger (Helen), Suzanne Bertish (Agamemnon), Daniel Burke (Diomed), Max Webster (Director), Kit Harington (Henry), Jude Akuwudike (King of France / Archbishop of Canterbury / Sir Thomas Erpingham), Seumas Begg (Jamy / Grey / Gloucester / Tenor), Claire-Louise Cordwell (Bardolph / Bates / French Soldier), Kate Duchêne (Exeter / Constable of France), Olivier Huband (The Dauphin / Ely), Melissa Johns (Mistress Quickly / Williams / MacMorris), David Judge (Mountjoy / Nym), Danny Kirrane (Pistol / Westmoreland), Diany Samba-Bandza (Katherine / Gower), Adam Maxey (Orléans / Bedford / Bass Baritone), Steven Meo (Llewellyn / Falstaff), Marienella Phillips (Alice / Cambridge / Salisbury / Mezzo Soprano), Joanna Songi (Scroop / Rambures / Harfleur / York / Soprano), Millicent Wong (Chorus / Boy), Minnie Gale (Margaret), Sophia Papadopoulos (Edward, Prince of Wales), Daniel J Carver (Clifford), Peter Moreton (Salisbury), Nicholas Karimi (Warwick), Oliver Alvin-Wilson (York), Richard Cant (King Lewis), Angelina Chudi (Lady Bona), Kimberley Sykes (Director), David Ajao (Orlando), Richard Clews (Adam), Tom Dawze (William), Amelia Donkor (Silvia), Laura Elsworthy (Phoebe), Patrick Brennan (Corin), Sandy Grierson (Touchstone), Richard Cant (Gloucester, Henry’s Uncle), Lucy Benjamin (Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester), Paola Dionisotti (Winchester), Benjamin Westerby (Somerset), Nicholas Armfield (Earl of Richmond), Micah Balfour (Lord Hastings), Oscar Batterham (Lord Rivers), Arthur Hughes (Richard, Duke of Gloucester), Claire Benedict (Duchess of York), Kirsty Bushell (Queen Elizabeth), Sophie Cartman (Scrivener), Callum Coates (Brackenbury), Simon Coates (Lord Stanley), Matthew Duckett (Catesby), Isaac Fox (Richard, Duke of York), Will Edgerton (Tyrrell / Grey), Minnie Gale (Queen Margaret), Ashley D Gayle (King Edward IV), Conor Glean (Murderer), Ben Hall (George, Duke of Clarence), Olivia Onyehara (Dorset), Thom Petty (Ratcliffe), Mark Quartley (Ghost of Henry VI), Joeravar Sangha (Murderer), Eloise Secker (Jane Shore), Rosie Sheehy (Lady Anne), Jamie Wilkes (Duke of Buckingham), Henry Fox (Richard, Oliver Ford Davies (Justice Shallow), Simon Russell Beale (Prospero), Alison Arnopp (Spirit), Jonathan Broadbent (Antonio), Laura Cairns (Spirit), Elly Condron (Iris), Joe Dixon (Caliban), Mark Quartley (Ariel), Daniel Easton (Ferdinand), Jenny Rainsford (Miranda)