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Front Row: The making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline

The making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline

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A first and a final - the making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline.

In this special edition, Front Row follows the making of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new production of Cymbeline - the final play in Shakespeare's First Folio.

A special edition following the Royal Shakespeare’s Company’s new production of Cymbeline, the final play in Shakespeare’s First Folio - a collection that reaches its 400th anniversary this year. 

Acclaimed and award-winning Shakespearean, Greg Doran, has directed every play in the First Folio except Cymbeline. For him it’s one of Shakespeare’s most complex creations and he will be directing it for the first time as his swansong as the RSC's Artistic Director Emeritus. From the start of the production’s rehearsal period until its first performance, Front Row follows Greg and his team as they get to grips with a play criticised and celebrated for its genre-busting, location-hopping, multiple plotlines, topped by the appearance of the god Jupiter descending from the heavens on an eagle.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

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