Welcome to the Richmond Shakespeare Society
We are a highly-respected amateur dramatic society founded in 1934 to perform Shakespeare's plays annually in the open air.
Today we have grown to a programme of eight productions a year by vastly differing playwrights from ancient Greece to the modern day. In addition, we have two shows by our Youth Theatre groups.
We have our own theatre, the Mary Wallace Theatre by the riverside in Twickenham. Our Summer Show is an Open Air production, in the gardens of neighbouring York House.
Please note that the Mary Wallace is a Club Theatre and that only members of the R.S.S. may buy tickets. However, becoming a member is easy and costs only £10; members may buy tickets for friends and family. The Summer Show is open to non-members.
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
directed by Gerald Baker
Julius Caesar is dead: his right-hand man, Antony, and his legal heir, Octavius, have divided the Roman Empire between them in an uneasy peace. But Antony has become deeply enraptured by the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. And she's as ambitious and wily and seductive a politician as any Roman.
Shakespeare's tragedy, almost his last play of this kind, is replete with romance and politics. As Antony's affair with Cleopatra strains and cracks, so his grip on empire weakens, leaving his rival Octavius space to claim it all. In language of dazzling poetry and glamour and compression, Shakespeare shows us the two legendary lovers over the hill and running out of time........
Saturday 6th to Saturday 13th March 2010
Performances at 7.45pm, except for Sunday 7th March at 4pm
There is also a matinee at 3pm on Saturday, 13th March.
There is no performance on Wednesday, 10th March.
Telephone bookings open on 22nd February: Call the Box Office on 020 8744 0547
“We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good”Antony & Cleopatra, Act ii, Sc.1