by Adrian Lester turns into Cyrano de Bergerac, Alfred Enoch, who is adopted against Henry V, and a praise of the Forsyte saga is part of a new Royal Shakespeare Company season, which will say its co-cardistic directors that they represent a brave “global” vision for the institution.
Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey announced the latest productions on Tuesday and said that the new program was a celebration of worldwide -inspired stories, “exciting about today’s most exciting theater artists”.
Lester will appear in Simon Evans and Debris Stevenson’s new “Kick-Bahn” version of Cyrano de Bergerac and joins the footsteps of Antony Sher, who played the role in a famous Gregory Doran-prepared production for the RSC for the RSC in 1997.
Enoch, known for his role in the Harry Potter films, will join Harvey for her version of Henry V after the couple worked on a version of Pericles celebrated by the criticism in 2024.
Pericles has been Harvey’s first production for RSC as a co-director since the beginning and she hopes for a similarly recorded project. The Guardian’s Mark Lawson praised the collaboration between Enoch and Harvey last year, of which he said that they could “not hide the special features of the piece, but prove that his beauties are equally deep and their political intelligence acute”.
A two -part production of the Saga Forsyte, which is based on John Galsworthy’s books, comes to Swan Theater in November 2025 after a successful run in the Park Theater in London.
Josh Roche’s production has already won praise and the observer praised the minimalist approach. Susannah Clapp said: “The family epic unfolds with intimate clarity on an almost naked stage” and added that – although the two parts can be seen separately – “it was satisfactory to see them in a sip”. There are 14 ways to see the productions in a session during the run that ends on January 10, 2026.
Production is not without controversy: a rape scene was horrified by some spectators when the books were adapted to television by the BBC in 1967 and in 2002.
The outgoing artistic director of the Bush Theater, Lynette Linton, brings a new musical adaptation of William Kamkwambas award -winning memoir, the boy who used the wind, to the Swan Theater in the next February.
Other productions are Daniel Ragget, who will direct Sam Heughan and Lia Williams that will occur in Macbeth. While Whitney White just brings imagination, an ambitious production calculated that were staged as “four floors in two appearances on the gig theater against a live soundtrack from rock, pop, indie and gospel”.
Evans and Harvey said: “From Malawi or Manhattan, through French fields, Scottish Heide, mythical country and huge country, our program 2025/26 celebrates what we believe that an RSC of the 21st century can and should be the case.
Recently it was announced that Ncuti Gatwa, who recently completed his role at Doctor WHO, together with Edward Bluemel in RSCS Shakespeare Vmarlowe drama with teeth from Liz Duffy Adams, who had the West -end premiere in Wyndham Theater in August, was born with teeth.
The joint artistic directors previously secured 25,000 tickets for 25 GBP to “open” a more diverse audience, while James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize, Fat Ham, part of her spring season 2025, one of three versions of Hamlet.
