The RSC production with McKellen and McCoy was staged in Melbourne, Australia during late July / early August 2007 and Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand during mid to late August 2007.

Sheen's most significant appearance of 1997 was the title role in Henry V, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) at their Stratford-upon-Avon theatre, which earned him a second Ian Charleson Award nomination.

The RSC again staged the play at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1981, as a double bill with Titus Andronicus, under the direction of John Barton, with Peter Land as Proteus, Peter Chelsom as Valentine, Julia Swift as Julia and Diana Hardcastle as Silvia.

In 2008 Michael Boyd, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, transferred his RSC Histories Cycle to the Roundhouse, rearranging the performing space to match the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, where the cycle had first been staged.

Previously, the RSC had offered seasons in which one of the tetralogies had been staged at the RSC, such as The Wars of the Roses ( the Henry VI plays adapted by John Barton ), or The Plantagenets ( the Henry VI plays directed by Adrian Noble ).

He has written for television, including The Stone Dance ( 1963 ), Children Playing ( 1967 ), House of Character ( 1968 ) ( staged by the Birmingham Rep as No Title in 1974 ), Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage ( 1969 ), Bypass ( 1972 ), Atrocity ( 1973 ), the Alan Clarke-directed Penda's Fen ( 1974 ), and Artemis 81 ( 1981 ); for radio, including No Accounting for Taste ( 1960 ), Gear Change ( 1967 ), Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin ( 1973 ) ( also staged by the RSC ); and for cinema, including François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ).

An early work, the one-act The Governor's Lady, in which an elderly colonial governor gradually turns into a gorilla, was originally written for radio in 1960 but not performed until it was staged by the RSC in 1965.

The fiftieth birthday season also featured The Merchant of Venice with Sir Patrick Stewart and revivals of some of the RSC ’ s greatest plays, including a new staging of Marat / Sade.

He nevertheless regularly accepted revivals and sometimes got involved in these productions, although remaining generally unsatisfied, and he directed workshops for RSC actors with Cicely Berry.

With the RSC in the town many famous actors have at some point lived or stayed in the town or surrounding villages.

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.

Two especially well known productions are Michael Bogdanov's 1978 RSC production at the Aldwych, starring Jonathan Pryce and Paola Dionisotti and Gale Edwards's 1995 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Michael Siberry and Josie Lawrence.

* Rosalind in As You Like It, RSC Stratford and Aldwych, summer 1967, then at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, January 1968

* The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising ( Wiebe ), RSC Aldwych Theatre, 1970

* Major Barbara ( Charles Lomax ), RSC Aldwych Theatre, 1970

* Henry VIII ( Surrey ), RSC Aldwych Theatre, 1971

Following a deal with Prince Littler, managing director of Associated Theatre Properties, the RSC established the Aldwych Theatre as its London base for productions transferred from Stratford to London, its stage redesigned to match the RST's apron stage.

Warren cites a number of productions of the play as evidence for this argument, including Robin Phillips ' Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Aldwych Theatre in 1970, where Valentine kisses Silvia, makes his offer and then kisses Proteus.

Ten years later, in 1970, Robin Phillips ' RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starred Peter Egan as Valentine, Ian Richardson as Proteus, Helen Mirren as Julia, Estelle Kohler as Silvia, and Patrick Stewart as Launce.

He made his London debut on June 11, 1961 playing King Henry II in Jean Anouilh's Becket with the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Peter Hall.

Also with the RSC, he was Lawrence Vail in an acclaimed production of Once in a Lifetime ( 1979 ) at the Aldwych Theatre, and he played Pierre in the Jane Lapotaire vehicle Piaf, giving a performance which caught the eye of the filmmakers of Chariots of Fire.

With the RSC he also played " the gruelling role " of Father Riccardo Fontana in Rolf Hochhuth's controversial play The Representative at the Aldwych in December 1963.

Until recently the RSC also ran two smaller theatres, the Swan, which is modelled on an Elizabethan theatre ( closed in August 2007 as part of plans for refurbishment ) and The Other Place theatre, a Black box theatre which was extended to become the temporary RSC Courtyard Theatre, which opened in July 2006.

Amateur bouts which end this way may be noted as " RSC " ( referee stopped contest ) with notations for an outclassed opponent ( RSCO ), outscored opponent ( RSCOS ), injury ( RSCI ) or head injury ( RSCH ).

The production used RSC actors who engaged with the audience as well each other, performing not from a traditional script but a " Grid " developed by the Mudlark production team and writers Tim Wright and Bethan Marlow.

If a boxer trails by more than 20 points, the referee stops the fight and the boxer that is leading automatically wins ; bouts which end this way may be noted as " RSC " ( referee stopped contest ) with notations for an outclassed opponent ( RSCO ), outscored opponent ( RSCOS ), injury ( RSCI ) or head injury ( RSCH ).

A decade later, John Barton's 1974 production for the RSC ( with assistance from Clifford Williams ) featured Sebastian Shaw in the title role, Tim Pigott-Smith as Posthumus, Ian Richardson as Jachimo, and Susan Fleetwood as Imogen.

In 1981, John Barton followed the 1957 Old Vic model and directed a heavily edited version of the play as a double bill with The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the RSC, starring Patrick Stewart as Titus, Sheila Hancock as Tamora, Hugh Quarshie as Aaron and Leonie Mellinger as Lavinia.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

Plummer won the Evening Standard Award for his performance after taking over the part from Peter O ' Toole, who broke his contract with the RSC before rehearsals began in order to take the lead in David Lean's film Lawrence of Arabia.

" After a long run in Cabaret, she rejoined the RSC making numerous appearances with the company in Stratford and London for nearly twenty years, winning several best actress awards.

Among her roles with the RSC, she was the Duchess in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in 1971.

* Richard II: Richard II ( 2000 )-directed by Steven Pimlott, ( RSC )

* RSC programme notes ( including those for Richard II at the Courtyard, August 2007 )

In 1965, he played Richard III in the BBC serialisation of the Wars of the Roses plays, based on the RSC production of the plays, and gradually made a name for himself with minor roles in films such as Oh!

The play was presented with the five other history plays ( Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V and Richard III ) to form a complete eight-part history cycle under the general title This England: The Histories ( the first time the RSC had ever attempted to stage the eight plays as one sequence ).

The play was presented with the other five history plays ( Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V and Richard III ) to form a complete eight-part history cycle under the general title This England: The Histories ( the first time the RSC had ever attempted to stage the eight plays as one sequence ).

She has been a long-standing member of the Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ), appearing in such acclaimed productions as the 1983 Richard III, which starred Anthony Sher, who played the title role on crutches.

He also appeared with the RSC in May 1961 in the lead role of Richard III.

The two women have collaborated on plays including Electra ( RSC ); The Good Person of Sezuan ( 1989, National Theatre ); Hedda Gabler ( 1991, The Abbey Theatre and BBC2 ); the controversial Richard II, with Shaw in the title role, also at the National Theatre ( 1995 ) and televised by BBC2 ; Footfalls, whose radical staging so enraged the Beckett estate that the production was pulled during its run ; The PowerBook, at the National Theatre, a dramatisation of Jeanette Winterson's novel ; Medea ( 2000 – 2001, Queen's Theatre and Broadway ); and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which Shaw played the small part of Portia.

His memorable performances include King Richard in Richard III ( RSC, 1996 ), Bolingbroke in Richard II ( RSC, 2000 ) and Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure ( Theatre de Complicite, 2004 ).

The original cast production of Children of Eden was developed as a Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) workshop, directed by John Caird, and starring Ken Page as Father, Richard Lloyd-King as Snake, Martin Smith as Adam, Shezwae Powell as Eve, Adrian Beaumont as Cain, Kevin Colson as Noah, Earlene Bentley as Mama Noah, Frances Ruffelle as Yonah, Anthony Barclay as Japeth, Craig Pinder as Shem, Ray Shell as Ham, Hiromi Itoh as Aysha and Ruthie Henshall as Aphra.

At the Young Vic he directed A Servant To Two Masters ( national & international tour & West End ), As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night, Blood Wedding, The Jungle Book, Grimm Tales (& international tour ), More Grimm Tales (& Broadway ), The Slab Boys Trilogy, Oedipus ; for the National Theatre: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Billy Liar ( national tour ), Accidental Death of an Anarchist ( national tour ), Whale, Romeo and Juliet, The Villains Opera ; for the RSC: Midnight ’ s Children ( Barbican, national tour & Apollo Theatre, New York ), Love in a Wood, Tales from Ovid ( Young Vic ), The Comedy of Errors ( national / international tour & Young Vic ), Spring Awakening: for Kenneth Branagh ’ s Renaissance Theatre Company: Coriolanus ( with Branagh, Judi Dench, Richard Briers and Iain Glenn ) and Traveling Tales.

* Betty McNeil in Some Americans Abroad ( Richard Nelson ), RSC The Pit, July 1989

In 1984 with the RSC he appeared in Richard III and Love's Labour's Lost.

In addition, at least seven sitting senators — Tom Coburn ( OK ), Pat Toomey ( PA ), David Vitter ( LA ), Richard Burr ( NC ), John Boozman ( AR ), Jim DeMint ( SC ), and Roger Wicker ( MS )— were members of the RSC while serving in the House.