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THE NEW REAL | ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

Creative team:

Writer: David Edgar

Director: Holly Race Roughan

Set & Costume Designer: Alex Lowde

Lighting Designer: Joshie Harriette

Composer: Monika Dalach Sayers

Sound Designer: Max Perryment

Movement Director: Michela Meazza

Video Designer: Luke Halls

Dramaturg: Chris Campbell

Casting Director: Matthew Dewsbury CDG

Company:

Daon Broni, Edyta Budnik, Ziggy Heath, Roderick Hill, Patrycja Kujawska, Martina Laird, Jodie McNee, Lloyd Owen, Sergo Vares

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About:

 

‘So here’s the offer. To run a highly ethical campaign for a candidate you really can believe in, actually. In a place that needs you. Now.’

It’s the 2000s. We’re in a faraway country. Rachel, a stellar American political strategist, and Caro, her British data whizz, have been hired to fight a ferocious election, in a place where it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s fake.

They think they’re here to teach the Eastern Europeans how to do democracy, but it turns out they’re here to learn. And when Rachel’s former political partner Larry rocks up on the rival side, their showdown threatens to change global politics, from Warsaw to Wisconsin. Forever.

At a time of epoch-changing elections on both sides of the Atlantic, Holly Race Roughan (Artistic Director of Headlong) directs The New Real, David Edgar’s epic, panoramic play about how the political fault-line was redrawn. An origin story, for right now.

Get a seat right at the heart of the drama as The New Real is performed in traverse in the newly re-configured auditorium of The Other Place, with the audience sat on either side of the stage.​

THE OTHER PLACE

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

Behind the scenes: https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-new-real/behind-the-scenes

Production photos: https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-new-real/production-photos

All the materials are courtesy and copyright of the RSC.

Photos by Ikin Yum.

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