Joan Jackson

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced that the chosen 37 Plays selected as part of its nationwide playwriting project, will receive script-in-hand readings across the UK throughout the Autumn of 2023. Learn more about the lineup of plays here!

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced details of the final 37 Plays selected for its nationwide playwriting search: an ambitious new initiative open to anybody from anywhere in the UK.

It is the 1950's. Or perhaps it is the modern day. It's hard to tell. Out of the dimly lit theatre we can just make out three vintage microphones and a table full of unlikely props. The humble cabbage is transformed into the sickening sound of a dead body falling to the floor. A hot water bottle becomes the screech of an escaping car. This is Radio Variety Hour: three radio serial dramas brought to life on stage that must be seen (err… heard…) to be believed.

Over two weekends in December, the Elements Theatre Company in Orleans employed a panoply of sensory stimuli in a Readers' Theatre form of John Mortimer's adaptation of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. With vivacity unexpected in a staged reading, Director Sr. Danielle Dwyer and her talented ensemble brought the ghost story to life in the sanctuary of the Church of the Transfiguration, proving that the tale of one man's redemption resonates and endures.