Future Events

• Monday 27 April - Big Talk: Dr Dan Gosling​

  • The Trustees of Richmond Shakespeare Society are extremely grateful to Dr Gosling for his time.  The net proceeds from this and other RSS Alive Guest Speaker events support the work of RSS Young Actors’ Company.

  • A 1642 will, recently uncovered at the National Archives, shines light on a Shakespeare family feud that turned his Stratford home into a legal battleground full of courtroom drama and impacted the fate of his descendants.​

  • Come and hear Dr Gosling - who discovered the missing will - tell the whole story.

  •  A Battle of Wills: William Shakespeare, Thomas Nash, and the Fight for New Place, Stratford

  • Tickets available now.  

• Sunday 3 & Monday 4 May - New Directors' Show Weekend

  • Two plays from debuting potential directors, a participative workshop (see below) and a panel and Q&A of the pleasures and pitfalls of Directing at RSS.

  • Play tickets available from Monday 6 April

• Sunday 3 May - Auditorium Workshop: Andy Smith​

  • A workshop with renowned director Andy Smith, who has worked worldwide as both a director and teacher​

  • 1-3pm

• Monday 11 May - Buyer Beware​

  • A rehearsed reading of an exciting original short play by Rodney Figaro​

• Saturday 13 June - Young Actors' Company​

  • Summer Showcase

• Monday 15 June - Big Talk: Martyn Hayes​

  • Behind the Mask

  • Martyn Hayes, Production Manager on the original musical production of The Phantom of the Opera, talks about putting on the show​

• More RSS Alive events coming soon:

  • “How To” workshops (Saturday afternoons)

  • Talks, rehearsed readings and further guest speaker events announcing soon