English Shakespeare Company

English Shakespeare Company

The English Shakespeare Company was an English theatre company founded in 1986 by Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington to present and promote the works of William Shakespeare on both a national and an international level.

Its inaugural production (1986) was an anthology entitled "The Henrys" ("Henry IV, Part 1", "Henry IV, Part 2", and "Henry V") which opened at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in December 1986. A year later, several more plays ("Richard II", ', ' and "Richard III") were added to the original productions and were presented as a complete history cycle under the title of "The Wars of the Roses". The production toured for two years in seventeen venues in the UK including the Old Vic in London, as well as appearing at several international venues, including the Hong Kong Festival, opening the new Tokyo Globe Theatre, being the centrepiece of The World Theatre Festival of Chicago, and touring to Stamford, Connecticut, the Spoleto Festival, Melbourne, the Adelaide Festival, Brisbane, The Netherlands, Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt.

In addition to "The Wars of the Roses", productions of many individual Shakespeare plays were also presented. They included "Twelfth Night", "Macbeth", "The Tempest", "Romeo & Juliet", Antony and Cleopatra and "As You Like It".


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