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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has introduced full casting for its upcoming productions of\u00a0The Empress<\/em><\/strong>, by\u00a0Tanika Gupta<\/strong>, and world premiere of\u00a0Falkland Sound<\/em><\/strong> by\u00a0Brad Birch,\u00a0<\/strong>which is able to open within the Swan Theatre within the Summer of 2023.<\/p>\n

These well timed and evocative performs are introduced sharply into focus in 2023 and supply contemporary perspective on Britain\u2019s relationship with its imperial previous and the way it continues to form the nation\u2019s id immediately.<\/p>\n

The Empress\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>will run within the Swan Theatre from Friday 7 July to Friday 15 September 2023, with press night time on Tuesday 18 July earlier than transferring to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London from Wednesday 4 October to Saturday 28 October, with press night time on Tuesday 10 October. The manufacturing will then return to the Swan Theatre from Wednesday 1 November to Saturday 18 November 2023.<\/p>\n

Falkland Sound\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>will run within the Swan Theatre from Saturday 5 August to Saturday 16 September 2023, with press night time on Tuesday 15 August.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Erica Whyman<\/strong>, RSC Acting Artistic Director stated:\u00a0\u201cThe RSC has always believed it essential to support and celebrate the living writers who can expose new ways of seeing our collective history and conjure a brave new world that we don\u2019t yet understand. The Empress by Tanika Gupta \u2013 now on the GCSE syllabus \u2013 presents an extraordinary friendship and a beautiful love story, whilst forensically exposing the blithe injustice of empire. Falkland Sound by Brad Birch explores with compassion the human experience of the Islanders during the conflict, and the ferocious politics which informed the British response. Now more than ever it takes courage to speak these truths, as new cultural wars roar and mutter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

THE EMPRESS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Set in 1887, the yr of Queen Victoria\u2019s Golden Jubilee, the play tells the story of the sixteen-year-old Rani Das, ayah (nursemaid) to an English household, who arrives at Tilbury docks after a protracted voyage from India, to start out a brand new life in Britain. On the boat, Rani befriends a lascar (sailor), an Indian politician and a royal servant destined to serve the Queen. Full of hopes and goals of what lies forward, they every\u00a0embark on a unprecedented journey.<\/p>\n

Spanning a interval of 13 years over the \u2018Golden Era\u2019 of Empire, this epic drama takes audiences from the rugged gangways of Tilbury docks to the grandeur of Queen Victoria\u2019s Palace, while unveiling the lengthy and embedded tradition of British Asian historical past which continues to form our society immediately.<\/p>\n

Making her RSC debut,\u00a0Tanya Katyal<\/strong>\u00a0will play Rani Das. Her theatre credit embody\u00a0When Mountains Meet\u00a0<\/em>at Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow. Television credit embody Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Eternally Confused and Eager for Love.<\/em><\/p>\n

Raj Bajaj\u00a0<\/strong>will play Abdul Karim. Raj\u2019s earlier RSC credit embody\u00a0Tamburlaine, Tartuffe and Much Ado About Nothing.\u00a0<\/em>Other latest theatre credit embody\u00a0Wildfire Road<\/em>\u00a0(Sheffield Crucible), Tartuffe<\/em> (Birmingham Rep),\u00a0Hobson\u2019s Choice<\/em>\u00a0(Royal Exchange Manchester),\u00a0Rapunzel<\/em>\u00a0(Stratford East),\u00a0Lions & Tigers, The Merchant of Venice<\/em>\u00a0(Shakespeare\u2019s Globe),\u00a0East is East<\/em>\u00a0(Northern Stage\/Nottingham Playhouse) and\u00a0Bend It Like Beckham<\/em>\u00a0(Phoenix Theatre).<\/p>\n

Helen Schlesinger\u00a0<\/strong>will play Queen Victoria. Helen\u2019s earlier RSC credit embody\u00a0The God\u2019s Weep, The Crucible, The Merchant of Venice\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Twelfth Night.\u00a0<\/em>Other latest theatre Credits embody\u00a0Straight Line Crazy<\/em>\u00a0(The Bridge Theatre),\u00a0Henry V, Henry IV Parts 1 & II, Hamlet, As You Like It\u00a0<\/em>(Shakespeare\u2019s Globe Theatre),\u00a0Albion<\/em>\u00a0(Almeida Theatre),\u00a0Boys Will Be Boys<\/em>\u00a0(Bush Theatre),\u00a0Frozen<\/em>\u00a0(Park Theatre),\u00a0Single Spies<\/em>\u00a0(Rose Theatre),\u00a0Coriolanus\u00a0<\/em>(Donmar Warehouse),\u00a0Bracken Moor<\/em>\u00a0(Tricycle Theatre). Recent display credit embody\u00a0Midsomer Murders, Lewis (Vivienne) Eastenders,<\/em><\/p>\n

Completing the corporate are:\u00a0Francesca Faridany\u00a0<\/strong>(Lady Sarah),\u00a0Aaron Gill<\/strong>\u00a0(Hari),\u00a0Anyebe Godwin<\/strong>\u00a0(Serang\/Lascar),\u00a0Miriam Grace Edwards<\/strong>\u00a0(Charlotte\/Georgina),\u00a0Oliver Hembrough\u00a0<\/strong>(Sir John Oakham\/William),\u00a0Avita Jay<\/strong>\u00a0(Firoza),\u00a0Tom Milligan<\/strong>\u00a0(Freddie),\u00a0Sarah Moyle<\/strong>\u00a0(Mary\/Susan Matthews),\u00a0Chris Nayak<\/strong>\u00a0(Jinnah\/Singh),\u00a0Lauren Patel<\/strong>\u00a0(Ruby\/Asha),\u00a0Simon Rivers\u00a0<\/strong>(Dadabhai Naoroji),\u00a0Anish Roy<\/strong>\u00a0(Gandhi\/Lascar),\u00a0Nicola Stephenson\u00a0<\/strong>(Lascar Sally),\u00a0Premi Tamang\u00a0<\/strong>(Lascar\/Ayah) and\u00a0Joe Usher\u00a0<\/strong>(Lascar).<\/p>\n

The Empress<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0first premiered within the Swan Theatre in 2013 and was directed by Emma Rice.<\/p>\n

The play-text was not too long ago added to the GCSE drama syllabus following a marketing campaign spearheaded by the RSC\u2019s Youth Advisory Board and one in every of 4 new performs by writers of color to higher replicate the variety of playwriting within the UK. The textual content was launched by AQA in 2022, the most important examination board in England. Tanika\u2019s 2019 manufacturing of\u00a0A Doll\u2019s House<\/em>\u00a0was beforehand added to the nationwide curriculum by Pearson in 2021 alongside works by Bola Agbaje, In-Sook Chappell and Roy Williams.<\/p>\n

Tanika Gupta<\/strong>\u00a0has written over 25 stage performs which were produced in main theatres throughout the UK. Her critically acclaimed adaptation of Ibsen\u2019s\u00a0A Doll\u2019s House<\/em>\u00a0set in colonial Calcutta launched Rachel O\u2019Riordan\u2019s first season as Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 2019.<\/p>\n

Tanika was awarded an MBE for Services to Drama and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Tanika is an Artistic Associate on the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and was not too long ago introduced as one in every of two new Writers in Residence at The Bush Theatre in 2023. For additional particulars, go to\u00a0www.tanikagupta.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The manufacturing is directed by\u00a0Pooja Ghai<\/strong>\u00a0with Design by\u00a0Rosa Maggiora<\/strong>. Lighting is by\u00a0Matt Haskins<\/strong>, Music and Sound by\u00a0Ben\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Max Ringham<\/strong>, Movement by\u00a0Wayne Parsons<\/strong>, and Casting by\u00a0Matthew Dewsbury CDG<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Martin Poile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

FALKLAND SOUND<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

This new play is impressed by the real-life testimonies of those that lived via the Falklands conflictand explores a neighborhood and lifestyle turned the wrong way up following the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentine forces in April 1982.<\/p>\n

The firm consists of:\u00a0Eduardo Arcelus<\/strong>\u00a0(Gabriel),\u00a0Alvaro Flores<\/strong>\u00a0(Sebastian\/One),\u00a0Sandy Foster<\/strong>\u00a0(Rosie\/Clare),\u00a0Anyebe Godwin<\/strong>\u00a0(Jacob),\u00a0Joanne Howarth<\/strong>\u00a0(Mrs Hargreaves\/Thatcher),\u00a0Oliver Hembrough<\/strong>\u00a0(Geoff\/Dad),\u00a0Avita Jay<\/strong>\u00a0(Sue\/Three),\u00a0Tom Milligan<\/strong>\u00a0(John\/Two),\u00a0Sarah Moyle<\/strong>\u00a0(Mary\/Joan),\u00a0Lauren Patel<\/strong>\u00a0(Sally),\u00a0Simon Rivers<\/strong>\u00a0(Edwin\/Editor) and\u00a0Joe Usher<\/strong>\u00a0(Robbie).<\/p>\n

Brad Birch\u00a0<\/strong>is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Wales whose work has been produced within the UK, USA, Japan, Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy and Malta. His performs embody\u00a0Missing People, Black Mountain, The Brink, Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated\u00a0<\/em>(winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First award, 2013) and\u00a0Tender Bolus.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2016, he was awarded the Harold Pinter Commission on the Royal Court. His performs are revealed by Methuen Drama and his first anthology, Plays One, was revealed in 2018. He is at the moment underneath fee with Rooks Nest and Film4.<\/p>\n

Falkland Sound<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is directed by\u00a0Aaron Parsons<\/strong>\u00a0with Design by\u00a0Aldo V\u00e1zquez<\/strong>, Lighting by\u00a0Amy Mae<\/strong>, Music by\u00a0Jack Drewry<\/strong>, Sound by\u00a0Alexandra Faye Braithwaite<\/strong>, Casting by\u00a0Matthew Dewsbury CDG<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Martin Poile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Image Design by Visual Communications, Photography by Clare Park \u00a9 RSC<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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