Royal Shakespeare Company is a world-known British theatre company. They define their aim as “to keep modern audiences in touch with Shakespeare as our contemporary” –which means that “as well as the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, [their] repertoire includes classic plays by international dramatists and work by living writers.”
The company dates back to 1875 when Charles Edward Flower launced an international campaing to establish a theatre in the town where Shakespeare was born. Since that date, the company changed its name, went through financial obstacles, reviewed its repertoire and built itself the reputation it deserves.
By March 2010 productions available are Anthony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Dunsinane, The Gods Weep, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Mathilda, Morte D’Arthur, Romeo and Juliet, and The Winter’s Tale.
See:http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/default.aspx
A list of notable actors from the company[]
F. Murray Abraham
Joss Ackland
Steven Charalambous
Roger Allam
Miles Anderson
Harry Andrews
Francesca Annis
Richard Armitage
Alun Armstrong
Peggy Ashcroft
Eileen Atkins
Ian Bannen
Alan Bates
Simon Russell Beale
Sean Bean
Nicholas Bell
Paul Bettany
Colin Blakely
Brian Blessed
Samantha Bond
David Bradley
Kenneth Branagh
Brenda Bruce
Richard Burton
Simon Callow
Cheryl Campbell
James Chalmers
Ian Charleson
Tony Church
Shelley Conn
Brian Cox
Julian Curry
Cyril Cusack
Niamh Cusack
Sinéad Cusack
Henry Ian Cusick
Tim Curry
Timothy Dalton
Charles Dance
Daniel Day-Lewis
Judi Dench
Simon Dormandy
Roy Dotrice
Amanda Drew
Lindsay Duncan
Mia Farrow
Peter Egan
Jennifer Ehle
Ralph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes
Emma Fielding
Colin Firth
Susan Fleetwood
Oliver Ford Davies
James Frain
Philip Franks
Mariah Gale
Michael Gambon
Romola Garai
William Gaunt
Colin George
John Gielgud
Iain Glen
Julian Glover
Patrick Godfrey
Louise Gold
Michelle Gomez
Michael Goodliffe
Henry Goodman
Nickolas Grace
Richard Griffiths
Jack Gwillim
Mike Gwilym
Nigel Hawthorne
Greg Hicks
Ciarán Hinds
Dustin Hoffman
Ian Holm
Michael Hordern
Jane Horrocks
Will Houston
Alan Howard
Gareth Hunt
Geoffrey Hutchings
Barrie Ingham
Jeremy Irons
Glenda Jackson
Derek Jacobi
Emrys James
Tony Jay
Michael Jayston
Barbara Jefford
Alex Jennings
Richard Johnson
Griffith Jones
Alexis Kanner
Charles Kay
Geoffrey Keen
Katherine Kelly
Ben Kingsley
Alex Kingston
Michael Kitchen
Peter Land
Jane Lapotaire
Jude Law
Josie Lawrence
Vivien Leigh
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Anton Lesser
Damian Lewis
John Lithgow
Cherie Lunghi
Patti LuPone
Alec McCowen
Sylvester McCoy
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McKellen
Leo McKern
Art Malik
Daniel Massey
Helen Mirren
Julian Morris
Carey Mulligan
Eve Myles
John Nettles
Gary Oldman
Lord Laurence Olivier
Peter O'Toole
David Oyelowo
Richard Pasco
Trevor Peacock
Bob Peck
Michael Pennington
Edward Petherbridge
Siân Phillips
Ronald Pickup
Tim Pigott-Smith
Eric Porter
Mike Pratt
Jonathan Pryce
Hugh Quarshie
Anthony Quayle
Diana Quick
Michael Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave
Siobhan Redmond
Roger Rees
Ian Richardson
Miles Richardson
Joely Richardson
Ralph Richardson
Alan Rickman
Diana Rigg
David Rintoul
Linus Roache
Norman Rodway
Paul Rogers
Clifford Rose
Mark Rylance
Paul Scofield
Fiona Shaw
Sebastian Shaw
Antony Sher
John Shrapnel
Donald Sinden
Timothy Spall
Walter Sparrow
Elizabeth Spriggs
Robert Stephens
Toby Stephens
Juliet Stevenson
Patrick Stewart
Mark Strong
Imogen Stubbs
David Suchet
Janet Suzman
Tilda Swinton
David Tennant
Ellen Terry
John Thaw
Gareth Thomas
David Threlfall
Frances de la Tour
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Dorothy Tutin
Margaret Tyzack
Harriet Walter
Derek Waring
David Warner
Zoë Wanamaker
Dennis Waterman
Ruby Wax
Samuel West
Michael Williams
Nicol Williamson
Penelope Wilton
Clive Wood
John Wood
John Woodvine
Irene Worth
Mary Ure
Susannah York