Royal Shakespeare Company - Key Productions

Key Productions

• Coriolanus, with Laurence Olivier as Coriolanus, Edith Evans, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert Finney and Mary Ure, directed by Peter Hall (1959)
• King Lear directed by Peter Brook with Paul Scofield as Lear (1962)
• The Wars of the Roses, adaptation of the Henry VI and Richard III plays, directed by Sir Peter Hall 1963-64 with Ian Holm, Peggy Ashcroft and David Warner
• Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss directed by Peter Brook (1964)
• The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, world premiere directed by Peter Hall (June 1965)
• Staircase with Paul Scofield and Patrick Magee (1966)
• Hamlet directed by Peter Hall with David Warner in the title-role (1965)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Brook (1970)
• Old Times by Harold Pinter directed by Peter Hall (1971)
• Julius Caesar directed by Trevor Nunn (1973)
• Antony and Cleopatra directed by Trevor Nunn starring Janet Suzman (1973)
• Richard II, directed by John Barton, starring Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco, alternating the roles of Richard and Bolingbroke (1973–74)
• Travesties by Tom Stoppard, starring John Wood, world premiere directed by Peter Wood (June 1974)
• The Marrying of Ann Leete by Harley Granville Barker, starring Mia Farrow, directed by David Jones (September 1975)
• Hamlet, starring Ben Kingsley, directed by Buzz Goodbody (1976)
• Romeo and Juliet, starring Ian McKellen and Francesca Annis, directed by Trevor Nunn (March 1976)
• Much Ado About Nothing, starring Judi Dench and Donald Sinden, directed by John Barton (April 1976)
• The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill, with Alan Tllvern taking over the role of Hickey from the "indisposed" Ian Holm, directed by Howard Davies (May 1976)
• The Comedy of Errors, a musical by Trevor Nunn and Guy Woolfenden (September 1976)
• Wild Oats by John O'Keeffe, starring Alan Howard and Jeremy Irons, directed by Clifford Williams (December 1976)
• Macbeth, directed by Trevor Nunn starring Judi Dench and Ian McKellen (1976–1977)
• Privates on Parade by Peter Nichols, world premiere directed by Michael Blakemore (February 1977)
• Destiny by David Edgar, world premiere directed by Ron Daniels (May 1977)
• The Greeks directed and adapted from Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles by John Barton (1980)
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby adapted for the stage by David Edgar, world premiere directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird (1980), winner of a Drama Desk Special Award in 1982
• Much Ado About Nothing directed by Terry Hands starring Derek Jacobi and Sinéad Cusack
• Richard III, directed by Bill Alexander starring Sir Antony Sher (1984)
• Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublil directed by Trevor Nunn (1985)
• Les liaisons dangereuses by Christopher Hampton starring Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan, and Juliet Stevenson, world premiere directed by Howard Davies (1985)
• Titus Andronicus directed by Deborah Warner starring Brian Cox (1988)
• The Plantagenets adaptation of Henry VI, part 1, part 2 and part 3 and Richard III, directed by Adrian Noble, starring Anton Lesser as Richard III, Ralph Fiennes as Henry VI and David Waller as Duke of Gloucester (1988)
• Othello directed by Trevor Nunn with Willard White as Othello and Ian McKellen as Iago (1989)
• Hamlet directed by Adrian Noble starring Kenneth Branagh (1992)
• Coriolanus directed by David Thacker starring Toby Stephens (1994)
• This England: The Histories, a season of all Shakespeare's sequential history plays (2000)
• Hamlet directed by Michael Boyd starring Toby Stephens (2004)
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller directed by Dominic Cooke (2006)
• Pericles directed by Dominic Cooke (2006)
• Repertory performances of King Lear and The Seagull starring Ian McKellen and Frances Barber, directed by Trevor Nunn (2007)
• The Histories in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Roundhouse (2008)
• Hamlet directed by Gregory Doran, with David Tennant as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart as Claudius (2008)
• Matilda, A Musical by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin, directed by Matthew Warchus (2010)