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Welcome to the Press area for the World Shakespeare Festival.  You are free to use any of the resources on the website and if you have any queries about the Festival please get in touch.

Here you can find all the latest press releases on World Shakespeare Festival productions, tickets, events, exhibitions and the education programme.


  • Casting update for Much Ado About Nothing - 02.05.12 html
  • Troilus and Cressida update - 20.04.12 html
  • Launch of the Festival's digital project, myShakespeare - 17.04.12 html
  • World Shakespeare Festival public booking opens - 10.10.11- html
  • World Shakespeare Festival launch - 06.09.11- html -PDF
  • Julius Caesar casting release - html
  • Call out for Julius Caesar volunteers - html
  • New play to be streamed to 3,000 UK schools - html
  • Nations at War casting announced - html  
  • West end transfers of WSF 2012 productions - html
  • What Country Friends is This? casting announced - html

For general World Shakespeare Festival press enquiries, please contact:

Director of Communications:  Liz Thompson (liz.thompson@rsc.org.uk / +44 (0)1789 412667)

Communications Manager: Jane Ellis (jane.ellis@rsc.org.uk / +44 (0)1789 412668)

World Shakespeare Festival Communications Officer: Elsie King (elsie.king@rsc.org.uk / +44 (0)1789 272417)


For individual World Shakespeare Festival partner and production enquiries, please contact:

Almeida Theatre: Janine Shalom (Janine.Shalom@premierpr.com / +44 (0)20 7292 8330)

BBC: Alexandra Heybourne (Alexandra.heybourne@bbc.co.uk / +44 (0)208 225 8398)

Barbican: Bridget Thornborrow (bridget.thornborrow@barbican.org.uk  / +44 (0)207 382 5274)

Birmingham Repertory Theatre: Clare Jepson-Homer (clare.jepsonhomer@birmingham-rep.co.uk / +44 (0)121 245 2072)

Brighton Festival: Michael Eppy (michael.eppy@brightonfestival.org / +44 (0)1273 260838)

British Museum - Shakespeare: Staging the World The BP Exhibition : Hannah Boulton (hboulton@britishmuseum.org / +44 (0)20 7323 8522)

dreamthinkspeak: Sharon Kean Sharon@keanlanyon.com / +44 (0)2073543574)

Edinburgh International Festival: Susie Burnet (press@eif.co.uk / +44 (0)131 473 2020)

London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT): Sharon Kean (sharon@keanlanyon.com  + 44 (0)20 7697 8453)

National Theatre: Lucinda Morrison (LMorrison@nationaltheatre.org.uk / +44 (0)20 7452 3232)

National Theatre Wales: Catrin Rogers (catrinrogers@nationaltheatrewales.org)

Northern Stage: Gary Smith (gsmith@northernstage.co.uk / +44 (0)191 2427201)

Oily Cart PR: Amber Massie-Blomfield  (amber@mobiusindustries.com) 

Riverside Studios: Stacey Smith (staceysmith@riversidestudios.co.uk  / +44 (0)20 8237 1025)

Roundhouse: Ranjit Atwal (Ranjit.atwal@roundhouse.org.uk / +44 (0)20 7424 6776)


Royal Shakespeare Company:

The Sage Gateshead: Rebecca Tempest (rebecca.tempest@thesagegateshead.org  / +44 (0)191 443 4567)

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Lynn Beddoe (lynn.beddoe@shakespeare.org.uk / + 44 (0)1789 207134)

Shakespeare’s Globe: Julia Hallawell (julia.h@shakespearesglobe.com  / +44 (0)20 7902 1491)

Shakespeare’s Globe - Globe to Globe:  Ben Chamberlain (ben@thecornershoppr.com)

Theatre Royal Newcastle: Marianne Quayle (marianne.quayle@theatreroyal.co.uk)


Richard III

6 production images
Richard III directed by Roxana Silbert. Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon. A Royal Shakespeare Company production. Production photos credit: Hugo Glendinning. Publicity photo credit: Jillian Edelstein.

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King John

6 production images
King John directed by Maria Aberg. Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon. A Royal Shakespeare Company production. Production photos credit: Keith Pattison. Publicity photo credit: Jillian Edelstein.

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A Solider in Every Son - The Rise of the Aztecs

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A Soldier in Every Son - The Rise of the Aztecs directed by Roxana Silbert. Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon. A National Theatre of Mexico / Royal Shakespeare Company production. Publicity photo credit: Jillian Edelstein.

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Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad

6 production images
Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad directed by Monadhil Daood. Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon and LIFT at Riverside Studios, London. An Iraqi Theatre Company production Production photos credit: Ellie Kurttz. Publicity image credit: Deborah Shaw.  

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Two Roses for Richard III

7 production development images
Two Roses for Richard III directed by Cláudio Baltar and Fábio Ferreira. The Courtyard Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon and Roundhouse London. A Companhia Bufomecânica production in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Photo credit: Emmanuelle Bernard.

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Much Ado About Nothing

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Much Ado About Nothing directed by Iqbal Khan. The Courtyard Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon and Noel Coward Theatre London. A Royal Shakespeare Company production. Publicity photo credit: Jillian Edelstein.

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The Comedy of Errors

6 images from the production
The Comedy of Errors directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi. Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon and Roundhouse London.
A Royal Shakespeare Company production
Production photos credit: Keith Pattison
Publicity photo credit: Jillian Edelstein

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Twelfth Night

8 images from the production
Twelfth Night directed by David Farr. Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon and Roundhouse London.
A Royal Shakespeare Company production
Production photos credit: Keith Pattison
Publicity photo credit: Jillian Edelstein

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The Tempest

6 production images
The Tempest directed by David Farr. Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon and Roundhouse London Royal Shakespeare Company production. Production photos credit: Simon Annand. Publicity photo credit: Jillian Edelstein

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Julius Caesar

3 promotional images
Julius Caesar directed by Gregory Doran. Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon, Theatre Royal Newcastle and Noel Coward Theatre London.
A Royal Shakespeare Company production
Photo credit: Jillian Edelstein

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A Tender Thing

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A Tender Thing directed by Helena Kaut-Howson. Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon.
A Royal Shakespeare Company production.

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The Rest Is Silence

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The Rest Is Silence directed by Tristan Sharps. LIFT at Riverside Studios, Northern Stage and Brighton Festival.
A dreamthinkspeak production

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Macbeth: Leila and Ben - A Bloody History

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Macbeth: Leila and Ben - A Bloody History directed by Lotfi Achour. LIFT at Riverside Studios and Northern Stage.
An Artistes, Producteurs, Associes production

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Meera Syal and Ray Fearon with NYT

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Meera Syal and Ray Fearon with members of the National Youth Theatre.

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International Partners

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Renato Rocha, Director (The Dark Side of Love); Lotfi Achour, Director (Macbeth Leila and Ben - A Bloody History); Ray Fearon, Actor (Julius Caesar); Deborah Shaw, World Shakespeare Festival Director; Anissa Daoud, Writer (Macbeth Leila and Ben - A Bloody History) and Monadhil Daood, Director (Romeo and Juliet).

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WSF launch at the British Museum

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Cultural Olympiad Director Ruth Mackenzie; World Shakespeare Festival Director Deborah Shaw; Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic Director, Shakespeare's Globe); Neil MacGregor (Director of the British Museum); BP Group Regional Vice President Peter Mather; and RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd, pictured at the British Museum.

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WSF 2012 Logo

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WSF 2012 Logo

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