Mark Rylance to Return to the Globe Theatre in RICHARD III and TWELFTH NIGHT

By: Dec. 01, 2011
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Mark Rylance, a two-time Olivier and Tony Award winner, will return to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in RICHARD III and TWELFTH NIGHT, the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye reports today. 

Rylance was the Artistic Director for Shakespeare's Globe from 1995 to 2005 and also served as an Associate Actor of the RSC, acting in 48 plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. 

He's set to take on the title character in RICHARD III, which runs from July 14, 2012; TWELFTH NIGHT will see Rylance as Olivia, running from September 22. 

Tim Carroll directs both plays, which are set to be performed with an all-male cast.

Rylance's extensive theatre credits include Hamm in Endgame (Complicite, Duchess Theatre, West End); Peer Gynt in Peer Gynt (Guthrie); Macbeth in Macbeth (Phoebus Cart, Greenwich, UK Tour); Lee and Austin in True West (Donmar, West Yorkshire); Touchstone in As You Like It and Henry V in Henry V (Theatre for a New Audience); Constantine in The Seagull (A.R.T.); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (RSC, UK Tour); Henry in Life x 3 (Royal National Theatre, Old Vic); Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Opera); Valentin in The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Bush Theatre); Peter Pan in Peter Pan, Ariel in The Tempest, Lucentio in Taming of the Shrew, Michael in Arden of Faversham (RSC); among others. His credits at Shakespeare's Globe included Richard II in Richard II, Henry V in Henry V, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra and Olivia in Twelfth Night, for which he received a 2002 Evening Standard Award. Rylance most recently brought Jerusalem from the West End to Broadway and back, earning an Olivier and Tony Award for his performance in the show.

Rylance told the Daily Mail that the hope is to bring the shows to the West End and eventually to the United States, though there are no plans to do so in place yet.

Read the full Daily Mail article here.



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