The RSC’s new season for summer 2016 has been announced – Hamlet, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dr Faustus, The Alchemist and Don Quixote…  The first three are in the main theatre; the non-Shakespeare plays in the Swan. I hope to get to all of them.

I saw Hamlet at the RSC in 2013 (as well as other productions this year – see here and here), and the RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Mendelssohn’s music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall earlier this year, but these are different productions. Paapa Essiedu is Hamlet. It was reported earlier this year that Antony Sher would be doing King Lear in summer 2016, so I guess that’s postponed until the second season?