RSC Live: Macbeth

The Tempest

An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been ban

2010

China Girl

Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

1987

The Brothers

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

1947

Twelfth Night

Shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, Viola adopts a male disguise and enters the service of Duke Orsino, only to find herself part of a triangle of un

2012

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the ag

1971

The Angelic Conversation

The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtapositio

1985

Cheek by Jowl: The Winter's Tale

One of Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Winter's Tale, though written at the same period as The Tempest, smashes all the rules that The Tempest follo

2017

Othello

General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

1965

As You Like It

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

1936

Mary of Scotland

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

1936

Romeo and Juliet

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

1936

The Sounding

On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, b

2017

Was Ihr wollt

1963

I Know Where I'm Going!

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclemen

1945

Ring of Bright Water

Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set ou

1969

The Big Man

An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

1990

Mary Queen of Scots

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ru

2018

Tempest

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in f

1982

King of Texas

In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his thr

2002

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

1984