Theatre Royal Backstage Tour - RSC Technical Rehearsal, Romeo & Juliet

Marianne takes you on a tour into the deep dark depths of the Theatre Royal! Go through the rehearsal rooms, down into the Back of House and finally out onto the backstage and into the stage wings., where Sam Troughton and the RSC ensemble are doing a tech rehearsal ready for the opening night of Romeo and Juliet. The Theatre Royal - like you've never seen it before!

Olivier award-winning Rupert Goold directs Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company -- his first production as Associate Director.

Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two people falling in love. Impulsively, they marry in secret, but in a divided city their innocent union is threatened by a bloody family feud. Shakespeare vividly captures the beauty, intimacy and ultimate fragility of young love in a hostile world.

Rupert is also Artistic Director of Headlong, and his award-winning production of Enron is currently running in the West End and on Broadway. He won the 2007 Evening Standard Critics Circle and Olivier awards as Best Director for his production of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart (which was performed in Chichester, the West End and New York, and has been made into a film). For the RSC, he directed Patrick Stewart as Prospero in The Tempest during the 2006 Complete Works Festival and the word premiere of Frank McGuiness' Speaking Like Magpies. His other work for Headlong includes The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Rough Crossings and Faustus.

Mariah Gale plays Juliet and Sam Troughton is Romeo. Mariah played Ophelia opposite David Tennant in Gregory Doran's Hamlet last season. Her credits in the current repertoire include Celia in As You Like It, the Young People's Shakespeare Comedy of Errors, The Grain Store and the forthcoming Morte d'Arthur. On television she has appeared in Diary of Anne Frank, Oliver Twist and Skins.

Sam Troughton's other credits in the current RSC repertoire include The Winter's Tale, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Ivan Ivanovich in The Grain Store and Morte d'Arthur. He played Much in the BBC's recent series, Robin Hood. Other screen roles include: Hex II, Messiah III, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, Judge John Deed, Ultimate Force and Foyle's War. His films include: Spirit Trap, Alien vs Predator and Vera Drake.

Joseph Arkley, who made his RSC debut in 2009, plays Tybalt, with Jonjo O'Neill as Mercutio, James Howard as Paris and Oliver Ryan as Benvolio.

Forbes Masson, who played Romeo in the world premiere of Ben Power's A Tender Thing, an extraordinary re-working of Romeo and Juliet, plays Friar Laurence.

The cast also includes: David Carr (Escalus), Dyfan Dwyfor (Peter), Gruffudd Glyn, Richard Katz (Lord Capulet), Dharmesh Patel (Gregory), Peter Peverley (Friar John), Patrick Romer (Cousin Capulet), David Rubin (Lord Montague), Oliver Ryan (Benvolio), James Traherne, Noma Dumezweni (Nurse), Christine Entwisle (Lady Capulet), Debbie Korley, Simone Saunders and Kirsty Woodward.

Joining Rupert on the creative team are designer Tom Scutt, lighting designer Howard Harrison, composer Adam Cork and fight director Terry King.

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[millithestrange]

2:49

my god!

love it!