Auld lang syne
The company rehearses the start of the play where the promenading audience will be part of a party crowd. This production begins with a New Year's Eve countdown.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
Happy New Year!
The company rehearse the start of the play. A wooden replica of the set has been constructed in the rehearsal room.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
Champagne anyone?
Richard Katz plays a waiter in the opening scene. That's just water in the glasses!
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
Shall we dance?
Ben Onwukwe dances with Linda Bassett. Before the play begins, the actors dance with the promenading audience. On the walls of the rehearsal room, the creative team have stuck photographs which will inspire the design choices.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
Art thou my boy?
Edward Statham (Mamillius) and Anton Lesser (Leontes) rehearse Act 1 Scene 2. In the background are Nigel Cooke (Polixenes) and Kate Fleetwood (Hermione).
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
It is a gallant child...
Edward Statham (who plays Mamillius) sits quietly, watched by a teddy bear in bed, above. There are two boys sharing the role of Mamillius because children's working hours are restricted by law.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.
Trystan Gravelle (Archidamus, back left) and Joseph Mydell (Camillo, back right) rehearse Act 1 Scene 1. In the foreground are Nigel Cooke (Polixenes), Kate Fleetwood (Hermione) and Anton Lesser (Leontes).
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
Will you go yet? Force me to keep you as a prisoner...
Hermione (Kate Fleetwood) persuades Polixenes (Nigel Cooke) to stay, while Leontes (Anton Lesser) listens. They rehearse on a wooden replica of the set which has been constructed in the rehearsal room.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
Not your gaoler then, but your kind hostess...
Nigel Cooke and Kate Fleetwood rehearse a moment between Polixenes and Hermione. In the background are rails of costumes for fittings.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
The director
Dominic Cooke listens to a suggestion from Kate Fleetwood.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Ellie Kurttz
- Date
- 2006-10-05
- Copyright
- © RSC 2006
