Royal Shakespeare Company to Stage Ambitious Adaptations of Piranesi and Mrs Dalloway
The RSC's new season will tackle Susanna Clarke's Piranesi and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, alongside productions featuring Elizabeth Debicki and Damien Molony.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced it will stage theatrical adaptations of two novels long considered difficult to bring to the stage: Virginia Woolf's 1925 classic "Mrs Dalloway" and Susanna Clarke's 2020 award-winning novel "Piranesi," according to co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey.
The company described the pairing as addressing "a century-old theatrical preoccupation: the exploration of inner life on stage," given that both novels rely heavily on interior, stream-of-consciousness narration.
Harvey will direct "Mrs Dalloway," adapted by Zoe Cooper, which follows the novel's structure of a single day as its central character prepares to host a party. The production opens at the Swan Theatre in April and will be the third major UK adaptation of the novel staged within a year.
The season also includes other high-profile productions, with Elizabeth Debicki cast as Richard II and Damien Molony as Coriolanus, according to the RSC's announcement.
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- RSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway — The Guardian — Culture
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