Royal Shakespeare Company Residency

As the second year in a three-year cycle, The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has returned to Montclair State University for a 10-day residency in the Department of Theatre & Dance. RSC Associate Learning Practitioners Peter Bradley, Emma Manton, and Ibraheem Toure worked with students across the department through daily training, specialized workshops, apprenticeship, and modeling techniques through a live rehearsal open to the public. The residency culminated in a public script-in-hand sharing of TWELFTH NIGHT, performed by the junior BFA Acting and Musical Theatre students, with directing and dramaturgy support by a cohort of BA Theatre Studies students.

The RSC is one the preeminent theatre companies in the UK, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, but with productions also in London and across the world. In addition to their renowned productions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, they also commission new work from contemporary writers. Underlying all their work is the idea that Shakespeare is for everyone and that everyone has a right to see themselves in the work.