RSC Stages Piranesi and Mrs Dalloway Adaptations — SkimNews
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- RSC will stage adaptations of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, two experimental works written almost 100 years apart that the company describes as a 'hugely challenging' task
- Elizabeth Debicki is cast as Richard II in the RSC's upcoming season
- Damien Molony is cast as Coriolanus in the same season
- The two novel adaptations pose 'serious conundrums' for staging, according to the company's framing of the season
Why it matters: The RSC is pairing prestige literary adaptations of works written almost 100 years apart with a Shakespeare season anchored by named star casting (Elizabeth Debicki, Damien Molony), signaling a deliberate blend of canonical and experimental risk in one programme.
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