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All a-Bard! Shakespeare plays take to the high seas in RSC deal with British cruise line Cunard
- The Royal Shakespeare Company has signed a three-year deal with Cunard
- Actors from the company will perform on board the British cruise liner’s vessels
- Several different pieces will be performed while the vessels are at sea
William Shakespeare’s famous phrase may need updating to ‘all the world’s a “transatlantic” stage’.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has teamed up with British cruise line Cunard to take the Bard’s work out to sea as part of a three-year partnership.
Voyagers on the Queen Mary 2 will be able to enjoy several pieces during transatlantic crossings from Southampton or explorations around Norway’s fjords.
The Royal Shakespeare Company and British Cruise line company Cunard have signed a three-year partnership deal where the RSC will perform onboard vessels such as the Queen Mary 2, pictured
One such performance is Boundless as the Sea, a brand new piece created by Owen Horsley from Shakespeare’s iconic love scenes including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Workshops will be on offer as well as events ‘where the actors will perform their personal favourite sonnets and speeches, and answer questions from the audience’
One such performance is Boundless as the Sea, a brand new piece created by Owen Horsley from Shakespeare’s iconic love scenes including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
There will also be performances of an abridged version of the RSC’s acclaimed 2018 production of Sam Kenyon’s musical Miss Littlewood, which explores the life of Joan Littlewood.
Workshops will be on offer as well as events ‘where the actors will perform their personal favourite sonnets and speeches, and answer questions from the audience’.
The Queen Mary 2 will also host touring exhibition, Digital Diorama: An Augmented Journey Through Shakespeare’s Stratford, with some of the RSC’s most popular productions including Hamlet, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor and As You Like it screened in the on board cinema, Illuminations.
Voyages start from around £1,349 per person and rise to as much as £6,059 for a luxury suite.
Erica Whyman, RSC Acting Artistic Director, said: ‘We are thrilled to be working with Cunard to bring our performances to the guests of Queen Mary 2 together with unique opportunities to get close to working theatre artists and learn more about our house playwright.
‘The RSC ignites imaginations and expands horizons, and Shakespeare’s plays allow us to imagine new and remarkable worlds, so this partnership has a perfect synergy… This is an exciting new venture for us, and we look forward very much to meeting new audiences on board.’
The first voyages will run from May 29 until August 12 and then again from September 15 to November 13.
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