The RSC Summer Season is an absolute cracker, including Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet Hail to the Thief, The Winters Tale, Measure for Measure and Titus Andronicus – not to mention Tom Wells’ magical new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG.
So, click here to find out more about what’s on at the RSC and the Swan – and book your stay at our very own BFG – Stratford-upon-Avon’s Best Friendly Guesthouse!
Here’s some highlights from the RSC 2025 Season.
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE:
- Director Michael Longhurst kicks off the season with a new staging of Shakespeare’s original rom-com, Much Ado About Nothing, set in the glossy world of professional football in a new production featuring Freema Agyeman as Beatrice and Nick Blood as Benedick
- Shakespeare’s great tragedy and Radiohead’s seminal album collide in the world premiere of Hamlet Hail to the Thief, adapted by Christine Jones with Steven Hoggett with music by Radiohead and Orchestrations by Thom Yorke
- Yaël Farber makes her RSC debut with Shakespeare’s enigmatic story of love, loss and rebirth, The Winter’s Tale
- Emily Burns returns to direct a new staging of William Shakespeare’s razor-sharp examination of hypocrisy and corruption, Measure for Measure
- A Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre and Roald Dahl Story Company production, Roald Dahl’s unforgettable story comes to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage in Tom Wells’ magical new adaptation of The BFG, directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans.
SWAN THEATRE:
- Olivier and Tony Award-winning actor Simon Russell Beale returns to the RSC alongside Associate Artist Emma Fielding and Natey Jones in a new production of Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus, directed by Max Webster.
- Rose Leslie stars in a sparkling new version of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife, adapted by Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade and directed by Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey
- Originally produced Off-Broadway by The Public Theater and National Black Theatre, James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham makes its European premiere with original direction by Saheem Ali, directed for the Swan Theatre by Sideeq Heard
- Multi award-winning writer and performer Tim Crouch presents his magical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: I, Peaseblossom
- Richard Nelson’s moving and compelling one-man play, An Actor Convalescing in Devon, visits the Swan Theatre with RSC Associate Artist Paul Jesson
Call 01789 205 940 or email enquiries@avonlea-stratford.co.uk to book your stay now!
