FRIDAY 8 - SUNDAY 17 MAY 2015
YORK INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
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WELCOME
A WARM WELCOME FROM THE FESTIVAL’S DIRECTORS
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As early as 1610, Shakespeare’s Pericles, and possibly his King Lear, were performed near Pateley Bridge. The history of performing Shakespeare in North Yorkshire therefore dates back to Shakespeare’s own lifetime. This long tradition now finds vigorous new expression in the York International Shakespeare Festival (known to its friends as ‘YorkShakes’). Emerging from an ambitious partnership between York Theatre Royal, the University of York and Parrabbola, and drawing in many other regional, national and international partners, YorkShakes is a major new venture for York and for the North, and a proud member of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN). Our launch festival is packed with variety. Whether you’d like to see Northern Broadsides’ King Lear directed by Jonathan Miller, or be present for a foot-stomping Romeo and Juliet; catch a Shakespearean opera or see a visual record of Calibans across the ages; experience a silent film of Hamlet or hear Shakespeare talks from eminent academics; meet a Spanish-speaking puppet who’d like to be Hamlet or see an acclaimed Japanese actress perform Lady Macbeth, we have something for you.
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The European Shakespeare Festivals Network produces new and interpretively innovative productions, develops projects with and for local communities, supports new translations and research and facilitates genuine artistic and educational exchange internationally. The Prince H project on our programme represents a first major shared education initiative across European festivals. YorkShakes? With your help, we hope it will. Enjoy the festival! Damian Cruden, Philip Parr, Judith Buchanan
PS. You can discover more about our ESFN partner festivals at www.esfn.eu, and follow us on
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FEATURINGTHE STORIES OF SHAKEY P Words & Whippets returns for its third year running with another spectacular showcase of spoken word. Compered by York’s Henry Raby, this evening of entertaining, thoughtful, satirical and hilarious performances celebrates poetry from across Yorkshire, inspired by Shakespeare featuring: Paul Maxy (Ex-Prison Chaplain at HMP Hull, social commentator and wearer of Doctor Martens) Rose Condo (Canadian prairies girl via Huddersfield. World War One Slam Championship 2014) Sarah Thomasin (Sharp satirical wit straight from Sheffield) PLUS The Stories of Shakey P performed by Charlie Dupre. Classical playwriting and hip-hop meet in an electrifying lyrical brew, as the Bard is re-imagined as a playground battle rapper by slam-winning performer Charlie Dupre. Charlie has performed at Latitude, Secret Garden Party and supported the likes of Scroobius Pip, Ghostpoet and Kate Tempest. Saturday 9 May Location 1: De Grey Rooms Ballroom Time: 8.00pm Ticket: £5 (£1 transaction fee per booking)
A Solo Performance by Aki ISODA
Acclaimed Japanese actress, and Shakespeare interpreter, Aki Isoda brings to York her presentations of two of Shakespeare’s heroines Lady Macbeth (in a Western style) and, A Vision of Ophelia (in a Japanese style). Aki Isoda is a pioneer of the solo performer play in Japan, and has won numerous national and international awards, including the Shakespearein-Japan Award from the Shakespeare Globe Trust in London, and the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Award. In Japanese with English surtitles. Friday 8 & Sunday 10 May Location 1: De Grey Rooms Ballroom Time: 7.30pm Ticket: £12 Full Price £10 Concessions (£1 transaction fee per booking)
Parrabbola in association with Hamletscenen from Helsingoer Denmark
PRINCE H.UNIVERSE In the Hamlet Family Talkshow studio – Prince H. is in the presenter’s chair. Prince H. tells stories from his own turbulent life, and interviews his audiences about their experiences; universal issues discussed warmly and unpretentiously connect Prince H.’s world with that of the audience. Teatr Strefa Otwarta of Wroclaw
H(2)O The scene in which Hamlet meets with Ophelia, offers an opportunity to focus on the difficulties of relationships. Hamlet and Ophelia are engaged in a constant and dangerous game, forced by the depth of their feelings to fight and to play. An intimate and endearing performance based on improvisation in which the actors examine the boundaries of theatre. Performed in Polish and English and devised by Anna Rakowska and Piotr Misztela, based on Hamlet. Saturday 9 – Monday 11 May Sat 9 May, Location 1: De Grey Rooms Cocktail Bar 1pm, 6pm Sun 10 May, Location 4: Gillygate Pub Time: 3pm, 7.30pm Mon 11 May, Location 7: The New Schoolhouse Gallery 4pm, 7.30pm Ticket: £5 (£1 transaction fee per booking)
This is the English language version of a series of European productions in various languages – under the framework of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network. Particularly suitable for 13-16 year olds. Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 May Location 9: Friargate Theatre Time: 5pm Saturday, 1pm Sunday Ticket: £10 Full Price £5 Under 18s (£1 transaction fee per booking)
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The Flanagan Collective in association with York Theatre Royal
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Full of music, dancing and a healthy dose of chutzpah, The Flanagan Collective turn their hand to one of the best loved stories ever told. Performed in the beautiful surroundings of St Olave’s church you can expect a candlelit, foot-stomping and heart-wrenching telling of Shakespeare’s homage to young love and tragic romance. Infused with live music, soaring harmonies and good, honest storytelling. Thursday 7 – Saturday 23 May excluding Sundays Location 3: St Olave’s Church Time: 7.30pm, with 2.30pm Saturday Matinees Ticket: £18 Full Price £16 Concessions £14 Under 16s (£1 transaction fee per booking)
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The 16 – 19’s York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre present
SHEDSPEARE Ever wondered what happens to characters when they head out of a scene? Their lives continue; they do things, they go places, they make choices and they talk to people. Come visit and spend 10 minutes chatting with Hippolyta, Feste, Dogberry and Verges. Discover their story outside of their plays, inside a shed. Saturday 9 May Location 4: King’s Manor Time: Every 20 minutes from 11am - 3pm Ticket: FREE. Sign up on the day at the Box Office
Silents Now presents
Opera Restor’d in association with Hand Made Opera
PYRAMUS ANDTHISBE A comic opera by John Frederick Lampe Early opera specialists Opera Restor’d make a welcome return to the stage with their acclaimed production of Lampe’s Pyramus and Thisbe. A mournful moon, a cowardly lion, an unruly wall and two bumbling Roman lovers: Shakespeare’s comic reworking – in A Midsummer Night’s Dream – of Ovid’s story is one of the best-loved comic episodes in theatre. Set the ill-fated love story to Lampe’s late Baroque music, parody the pomposity of the day’s Italian Opera with all its divas, and the result is a scintillating early English comic opera full of musical and theatrical fireworks. “Unpretentious charm, musical rigour and aesthetic honesty” The Times
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HAMLET: DRAMA OF VENGEANCE starring Asta Nielsen (Germany: dirs. Svend Gade and Heinz Schall, 1921) Gala screening, with a score composed by Robin Harris Performed live by Robin Harris and Laura Anstee Screening introduced by Professor Judith Buchanan (University of York) Hamlet not just performed by a woman but Hamlet as a woman? The sheer daring of the film’s central premise is as brilliantly pursued as it is entertaining and the film constitutes a remarkable moment in the performance history of Hamlet. In 2005, a colour-tinted print of the film was rediscovered in Germany. This print has been beautifully restored by the Deutsches Filminstitut. Nielsen’s central performance is mesmerising. Cast: Hamlet – Asta Nielsen Ophelia – Lilly Jacobson Claudius – E. von Winterstein Gertrude – Mathilde Brandt Horatio – Heinz Stieda Robin Harris’s memorable score helps bring the film to life in fresh and wonderful ways. Saturday 9 May Location 13: Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Time: 7.30pm Ticket: £12 Full Price £10 Concessions (£1 transaction fee per booking)
Sunday 10 May Location 6: National Centre for Early Music Time: 4pm Ticket: £22 Full Price £18 Concessions (£1 transaction fee per booking)
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A York Theatre Royal Co-Production with Landesbühnen Sachsen
SHAKESPEARE IN HIS CUPS Written by Richard Hurford Companyia Pelmànec of Catalonia presents
THE DIAGNOSIS: HAMLET
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Max wants to be Hamlet. He wants Shakespeare to make decisions for him, to speak for him. He wants to be liberated from his pain and his fear through the words of one of the most complex and analysed characters in literature. And so, day after day, he reimagines his life: to be a producer, to be a puppeteer encouraging and controlling the nightmares that haunt him. But the brain is perverse, sooner or later we all must face the great truth: life is uncertainty. Presented in Spanish with English surtitles “Don't think puppetry is just for children. Miquel Gallardo's puppets are alive and autonomous... a lucid, brilliant, poetic show, which starts smiles and creates dreams.” El País Monday 11 May & Tuesday 12 May
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Location 8: St Peter’s School Time: 7.30pm Ticket: £12 Full Price £10 Concessions (£1 transaction fee per booking)
It is a naughty end of the tour night as three actors tell tales of Shakespeare in drink. As they play out scenes of folly and malevolence, their lives slowly merge into that of the characters and Shakespeare’s exploration of the human condition through drink becomes that of their own. A playful study of drink and drinking, so come raise a glass (or three) to celebrate the Bard and his plays with all their liquor! Featuring Martin Barrass, Jonathan Race and Robin Simpson Directed by Julian Ollive Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 May Location 4: The Gillygate Pub Time: 6.30pm Ticket £5 (£1 transaction fee per booking)
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The HandleBards present
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS "4 actors, 4 bicycles, 40 characters and a 2000+ mile adventure." The HandleBards - a madcap, 4strong, all-male troupe of players – are cycling to York to perform The Comedy of Errors! Carrying all their set, props and costumes on just 4 bikes, they will be rocking up in their innovative style to perform Shakespeare's anarchic farce of mistaken identity and too many twins. Wednesday 13 May Location 9: Museum Gardens Multangular Tower Time: 1.30pm and 6pm Ticket: FREE AND NO NEED TO BOOK
York Shakespeare Project presents
TIMON OF ATHENS Rich beyond measure, Timon of Athens loves feasts, friends - and flattery. Yet when financial crisis hits he finds his friends abandon him, leaving him alone in the ruins of his extravagant lifestyle. With creditors closing in, Timon prepares a final party to make his farewells. And what a farewell this will be... For their twenty-seventh production, York Shakespeare Project presents this dark tale of the dangers of greed, following
sell-out shows at York Theatre Royal (Othello, Twelfth Night). Set up in 2001, the Project's goal is to produce the complete plays of William Shakespeare in York over 20 years. Directed by Ruby Clarke Thursday 14 – Sunday 17 May Location 1: De Grey Rooms Ballroom Time: 7.30pm with a 2.30pm Saturday and Sunday matinee Ticket: £12 Full Price £10 Concessions (£1 transaction fee per booking)
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University of York’s DramaSoc presents
RICHARD III Richard returns to York.
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A Two Gents production
THETAMING OFTHE SHREW A topsy, turvy examination of gender roles, marriage and oppression. Two Gents Productions is a cross-cultural, touring theatre company, whose adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays highlight issues of migration and displacement.
This production is presented in the company’s signature bareboned style, which has been praised as “uproariously entertaining” by The Guardian. Friday 15 & Saturday 16 May Location 2: Friargate Theatre Time: 7.30pm with a 12noon Saturday Matinee Ticket: £12 Full Price £10 Concessions (£1 transaction fee per booking)
In an ambitious retelling of Shakespeare’s classic, the University of York’s Drama Society will examine the nature of leadership in today’s fractured political climate and the insatiable rise of the increasingly outlandish, motivated and charismatic “people’s politicians”. Saturday 16 May
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Reimagined as a modern-day political thriller, a young, ambitious Richard seeks to seize the reins of our nation’s divided Parliament by any means necessary.
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Location 10: Guildhall Council Chambers Time: 5pm Ticket: £6 Full Price £5 Concessions (£1 transaction fee per booking)
Northern Broadsides present
KING LEAR Directed by Jonathan Miller
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King Lear is the story of a family at war with itself. Lear, an aging and deeply flawed individual, wrecks his relationship with his three daughters and in doing so, loses all he has. What is there left? This question, which is Lear’s predicament and Shakespeare’s genius, invites us all to think upon what we might gain when nothing is all we have. Miller famously described King Lear as “The most interesting play Shakespeare ever wrote”. With his keen eye for the subtleties of human behaviour and a sharp focus on the emotional power of the story, be prepared for a ‘Lear’ stripped back to its heart and soul; intimate, moving and utterly believable. This is Miller’s second collaboration with the multi award-winning Northern Broadsides; a company whose trademark vigour, simplicity and down-toearth performance style has won over a whole new generation of Shakespeare fans. Designed by Isabella Bywater Lighting by Guy Hoare “Northern Broadsides have a vigorous aesthetic, a way of doing Shakespeare that is revelatory.” The Independent on Sunday “Northern Broadsides can bring Shakespeare to life as gripping, accessible theatre for today simply by making the words sing.” The Guardian Tuesday 12 – Saturday 16 May Location 16: TFTV Mainstage, University of York Time: 7.30pm with a 2.30pm Saturday Matinee Tickets: Tues - Thurs eve £22 Full Price Concessions £2 off £15 Under 18s Fri - Sat eve £25 Full Price Concessions £2 off £18 Under 18s Sat Matinee £18 Full Price Concessions £2 off £14 Under 18s Schools £10 (£1 transaction fee per booking)
Post-Show Talk with Barrie Rutter and Members of the King Lear Cast This post-show Q and A is free to ticket-holders of the performance on Wednesday 13 May at 7.30pm
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The Shakespeare in the Making of Europe project, a research collaboration between the Universities of York, Utrecht, Amsterdam, LMU Munich, Wuerzburg and Łódź, presents two talks
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PROFESSOR IRENA MAKARYK
SHAKESPEARE IN UKRAINE:VOICING THETIMES Banned in Ukraine by the tsars, Shakespeare made his longawaited entrance in 1919 during the tumultuous years of civil war, world war, and revolution. In this illustrated lecture, Irena Makaryk will show how Shakespeare can be invited to connect with the moment by arguing that Kurbas' Macbeth in 1924 was a reflection of the upheaval of those difficult times. Irena R. Makaryk, Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, is author of Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn (2004), Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism (with J. G. Price, 2006), Modernism in Kyiv (with V. Tkacz, 2010), and Shakespeare and the Second World War (with M. McHugh, 2012).
Monday 11 May
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The University of York welcomes you to the annual distinguished Patrides lecture
PRE-SHOWTALK PROFESSOR TON HOENSELAARS
PRE-SHOWTALK PROFESSOR MARGRETA DE GRAZIA
SING LIKE BIRDS I’TH’CAGE: CULTIVATING SHAKESPEARE IN CAPTIVITY, 1914-2014
ENDS,EXITS AND THE‘ESCHATON’IN ‘KING LEAR’
For over a century, civilians in labour camps, prison camps, and concentration camps worldwide have read, taught, cited, and performed the works of Shakespeare. This talk investigates how ‘Shakespeare’ gave meaning to the existence of those interned, but also the ways in which present-day observers may benefit from these internment camp cultures. Ton Hoenselaars, Professor of Early Modern English History and Culture at Utrecht University, is author of, among other titles, Shakespeare's History Plays (2004), Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (2012), and Shakespeare behind Barbed Wire (forthcoming 2016).
Tuesday 12 May Location 15: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul, University of York Time: 5pm Ticket: FREE to book
A half-century ago, Frank Kermode argued influentially that in King Lear the scriptural sense of endtime had given way to modern fictive notions of the end. And yet the eschaton is deeply embedded in the structure of Lear, not just in the plot’s drawn-out movement through an apocalyptic storm to a “promised end”, but in smaller scenic units that problematize the exits that bring scenes to a close. But what happens to these in-built eschatological structures in performances that are resolutely secular? Margreta de Grazia, Emerita Rosenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of, among other titles, Shakespeare Verbatim (1991), “Hamlet” without Hamlet (2007), and Five Shakespearean Period Pieces (forthcoming).
Thursday 14 May Location 17: Ron Cooke Hub, Heslington East Campus, University of York Time: 5.30pm Ticket: FREE to book
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THEVOICES OF ‘KING LEAR’ By the time he wrote King Lear Shakespeare had developed an unsurpassed mastery of the writing of stage dialogue. This talk will explore, with the help of performed excerpts from actors, the richness and variety of the performance possibilities of this extraordinary script.
The Drama Department at York St. John University presents
A RESPONSETO‘KING LEAR’:
THEY KILL US FORTHEIR SPORT Through fragmented images, snatched conversations and halfremembered events, York St. John’s second year students have created their production as a reconsidering of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. It has been composed in response to the students’ recent secular pilgrimage to Auschwitz; to try and answer the question “how will we remember when all the witnesses are gone?” Wednesday 13 & Thursday 14 May Location 11: Quad South Hall, York St. John University Time: 8pm Ticket: Free
Michael Cordner, Ken Dixon Professor of Drama and Head of Theatre in the Department of TFTV, University of York, is founding General Editor of Oxford University Press's Oxford English Drama and regularly directs productions of 17th-century plays on the main stage of York’s TFTV Department.
Saturday 16 May Location 16: Black Box, TFTV, Heslington East Campus, University of York Time: 5.30pm Ticket: FREE to book
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PRE-SHOWTALK PROFESSOR MIKE CORDNER
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The aim of these two events is to explore how Shakespeare’s theatre is popularised in the twenty-first century.
POPULAR SHAKESPEARES PT.1 Before they perform their adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in the evening, the founder and director of Two Gents Productions, Arne Pohlmeier, will be providing a workshop demonstration on Friday morning. Two Gents’ The Two Gentlemen of Verona was chosen to be part
of the Globe to Globe Festival during the Cultural Olympiad, and they regularly tour round both rural and urban venues using their signature style to unfold Shakespeare’s stories on a bare stage with only two actors of migrant/cross-cultural backgrounds. Friday 15 May Location 12: Temple Hall, York St. John University Time: 10am Ticket: FREE to book
POPULAR SHAKESPEARES PT.2 The afternoon will feature a panel discussion with a range of guests who are directly involved in bringing Shakespeare to 21st Century audiences, from international festivals, reconstructed theatres, internet performance archives, community amateur Shakespeare theatre and museums. Panellists include lecturers, theatre producers and historians. Friday 15 May
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Location 12: Temple Hall, York St. John University Time: 2pm Ticket: FREE to book
POP-UP CINEMA Pop round to the Festival box office in the De Grey rooms to view a rolling selection of films from our partner festivals from across Europe and our other international colleagues. A festival of Hamlets in Romania, Shakespeare in Outback Australia and prisons in Malta. Drop in and catch up with some outstanding and varied work - all for free! TV screen with headphones. Friday 8 – Sunday 17 May
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The Cathedral Cities partnership between the Universities of Cologne and York presents
A PARTY FORWILL: EXHIBITION Heslington Hall is the Tudor manor house in the heart of Heslington that was partially rebuilt in the Victorian style in the nineteenth century and is now the nerve centre of the University of York. To celebrate the York International Shakespeare Festival, this impressive manor house is opening its doors to host an international Shakespeare
exhibition. The exhibition, generously on loan from the University of Cologne, features an array of interesting and varied Shakespeare-related artefacts, art works and fascinating records of production. As part of this celebration of Shakespearean performance histories, visitors will be invited to explore the range of ways in which Shakespeare has been interpreted at different moments and in different places. ’A Party for Will’ was originally curated in Germany by Petra Hesse and Peter Marx. The Cologne/York cathedral cities exhibition project is managed by Peter Marx, Judith Buchanan, Sascha Forster, Carla Suthren and Helen Jacobs, with postgraduates from both universities.
With thanks to the YuFund, the Erasmus programme and the University of Cologne for kind support for this exhibition, and to the University of York for generously relocating other core activity from Heslington Hall to make the exhibition possible.
Sunday 10 – Saturday 16 May Location 14: Heslington Hall Opening Times: Sun 10 2.30pm – 4.30pm Mon 11 1pm – 4pm Tues 12 1pm – 6pm Wed 13 1pm – 6pm Thu 14 1pm – 5pm Fri 15 1pm – 5pm Sat 16 2.30pm – 5pm Ticket: FREE AND NO NEED TO BOOK For pre-booked school parties: 11 – 15 May inclusive 12:30pm – 3pm
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FRIDAY 8 MAY
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2: Friargate Theatre
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HAMLET:DRAMA OFVENGEANCE
ROMEO & JULIET
WORDS AND WHIPPETS
13. Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
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A PARTY FORWILL EXHIBITION
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PYRAMUS AND THISBE
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14: Heslington Hall
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TWOSHAKESPEARE HEROINES
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14: Heslington Hall
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3: St Olave’s Church
8: St Peter’s School
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7: The New Schoolhouse Gallery
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KING LEAR
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THE DIAGNOSIS: HAMLET
4: The Gillygate Pub
16: TFTV Mainstage
3: St Olave’s Church
8: St Peter’s School
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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
A PARTY FORWILL EXHIBITION
9: Museum Gardens
14: Heslington Hall
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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
ROMEO & JULIET
KING LEAR
THEY KILL US FOR THEIR SPORT
9: Museum Gardens
3: St Olave’s Church
16: TFTV Mainstage
11: Quad South Hall
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MARGRETA DE GRAZIA
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ROMEO & JULIET
KING LEAR
TIMON OF ATHENS
THEY KILL US FOR THEIR SPORT
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2: Friargate Theatre
16: TFTV Mainstage
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RICHARD III
MIKE CORDNER
14: Heslington Hall
10: Guildhall Council Chambers
16: TFTV Black Box
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TIMON OF ATHENS
KING LEAR
ROMEO & JULIET
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