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In the Studio: Gregory Doran: Staging Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

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Gregory Doran

18/07/2023 GMT

Gregory Doran: Staging Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

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Behind the scenes of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production

Nick Ahad follows the Royal Shakespeare’s Company’s new production of Cymbeline, the final play in Shakespeare’s First Folio - a collection that’s celebrating its 400th anniversary this year.

Acclaimed and award-winning Shakespearean, Gregory 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 Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director emeritus. From the start of the production’s rehearsal period until its first performance, we follow Gregory 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

(Photo: Gregory Doran. Credit: Ellie Kurttz)

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