BBC to broadcast RSC recordings as part of Culture in quarantine
Introduction
As part of the BBC’s plans to keep bringing arts to audiences during the Coronavirus pandemic, you will be able to watch six RSC productions from the comfort of your own home.
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The six recordings are part of the RSC’s hope to screen live in cinemas all William Shakespeare’s productions. This year there were to be three more (A Winters tale, Comedy of Errors and Pericles) which have now been postponed.
All six are now on iPlayer and will be broadcast on BBC 4 – dates to be announced
- Watch Macbeth on iPlayer– with Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack
- Watch Hamlet on iPlayer – directed by Simon Godwin with Paapa Essiedu
- Watch Romeo and Juliet on iPlayer directed by our Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman
- Watch Much Ado About Nothing on iPlayer – directed by Christopher Luscombe
- Watch Othello on iPlayer – with Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati
- Watch The Merchant of Venice on iPlayer – directed by Polly Findlay