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)