Royal Court - All New Seasons

Perhaps it does reflect the “ignorance and lack of knowledge of some theatre goers” and a shame that some of those you’ve mentioned aren’t better known. But is doesn’t change my point that to me it seems that this first season has more actors in a short space of time who are know to a wider circle outside of regular theatregoers than at the RC in recent years. I guess to me it’s felt like certainly since Covid the Court hasn’t really had what felt like a box office or big critical hit, and their recent cast announcements have certainly stirred up more box office interest. I hope for them that the big critical hit follows.

Quick point of information - the RC no longer have a casting dept. They went along with the literary, education and international dept…

Quick point of reference

With a few exceptions only

Over many years

The RC is one of the only venues

Which announces their entire season

Without casting upfront

And that was the case for many years

This policy may have changed under the new AD

We shall see how it pays off

Duration for BRACE BRACE is 70 minutes with no interval.

I wonder when it'll be announced and if it will include Stereophonic or whether that's going straight to the West End (Duke of York's is rumoured on other thread). Might make sense to go to the Court first as DOY not free until April.

Event the evening before for patrons

I hope it’s better than the NT “new” season

From the telegraph

he big headliners include Robert Icke’s first original play – a real coup for the Court – which examines the infamous 2010 manhunt for Raoul Moat, and A Good House, an invigoratingly “messy” play about South African neighbourhood dynamics. A number of the season’s plays take on thornier issues closer to home, including A Knock at the Roof, about the conflict in Gaza, and Scenes from Repatriation, in which the Chinese government goes up against the British Museum, and which, Byrne assures me, doesn’t offer the conversation about ownership and heritage you might expect.

There is also, perhaps unexpectedly, a 25th-anniversary staging of Sarah Kane’s posthumous 4.48 Psychosis, which premiered at the Court in 2000 and is revived in a co-production with the RSC with the original cast and director James Macdonald.

Byrne says it will be one of the unmissable theatrical events of next year and he is probably right, but it also feels like an attempt to reconnect the Court to its glory period in the late 1990s, which, under the then artistic director Stephen Daldry was a hotbed of provocation and controversy, with furious, desolate plays by Kane, Mark Ravenhill and Anthony Neilson reasserting the venue as an essential part of British culture. “Yes, there’s an element of celebrating that history. But 4.48 Psychosis is also one of the most important plays of the last 100 years. Like a lot of female work, it was regarded as autobiography at the time, which to some extent has limited its perceived significance. I think this revival will allow us to separate it from Kane’s personal mythology.”

Great new season! Unfortunately I like everything so there won't be much saving in 2025.

Goodness, I really hope I get can get a ticket to 4.48 Psychosis. It's a play that means so much to me.

I might get a membership just to secure a ticket.

I wonder if they will extend Psychosis as it's currently on sale to supporters and already limited availability. Even as a member it doesn't look like there will be anything left.

Website now updated with all new shows

royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/

They don’t have to announce everything in one go

If you look at the homepage for the show

Why not sign up for the link

“To be the first to hear about any future performances of Giant by Mark Rosenblatt”

Have you not already seen it at the RC?

Why the urgency for it to transfer