What's On at RCS

48 Pages·2016·1.92 MB·English

What's On at RCS
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Welcome to
What’s On at RCS
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Autumn/Winter Season
Ranked 6th in the world
8 art forms
for performing arts education
5 purpose built venues (QS World Rankings, 2016)
Ranked highest institution in Scotland
500+ performances a year
for graduate employability
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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is one of the most diverse performing arts institutions in the 1
world, offering specialist education in music, dance, drama, production and screen. We programme 3
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more than 500 public performances each year with our many creative partners. By attending a 2
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performance at RCS, you will see the output of work by the most talented students from across 0
Scotland, the UK, Europe and beyond before they graduate to work in the professional industry. 57
e Here is an overview some of the most renowned art in order to better Production students design and
c of what students opera companies in the understand the world in create the props, costumes, sets
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of study at RCS: world. (See p11) which they live, developing and lighting, and ensure the
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socially engaged cultural and off stage. They are the ones
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c. • Teaching performance, (See” Into The New” p10) feast for you, the audience.
s.a theory, applied music • BA Modern Ballet –
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r and composing, our with Scottish Ballet, students Theatre – led by Professor Accessible
musicians are encouraged learn classical technique Andrew Panton (Artistic performances
and nurtured to develop and contemporary Director of Dundee Rep
their potential, both choreography in Theatre) students are Burial at Thebes (p6)
on their individual preparation for careers as taught practical, high BSL Thu 3 Nov / 7.30pm
instruments and in professional dancers. level education across
orchestras and ensembles. the disciplines of acting, Brigadoon (p13)
• BA Acting – one of the singing, dance and music. CAP Thu 1 Dec / 7.30pm
4 • Our exceptional departments most highly regarded (See p12-13)
include: Brass, Composition, acting programmes in the Scavengers (p7)
Guitar and Harp, Jazz, UK. Alumni include James • BA Performance in British BSL All performances
Keyboard, Strings, Timpani McAvoy, David Tennant, Sign Language and English –
and Percussion, Vocal Elaine C. Smith and Richard the only programme of its The Snow Queen (p8)
Studies and Woodwind. Madden. (See p6-9) kind in the UK, teaching R Fri 16 Dec / 12.30pm
deaf students to be both BSL Fri 16 Dec / 7pm
• Our Traditional Music • MA Classical and actors and creators of work.
department offers the Contemporary Text – This season marks this new Simon’s Magical
UK’s only Bachelor of running the gamut programme’s first public Christmas Socks (p8)
Music degree dedicated to from Shakespeare and performance. R Wed 21 Dec / 2pm
traditional and folk music. Renaissance classics to (See “Scavengers” p7)
7 new plays from some of BSL = British Sign Language
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0 • Over the last twenty years, the nation’s most exciting All of our public performances interpreted performance
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2 our MMus and MPerf Opera playwrights. are supported by students on CAP = Captioned performance
3 programmes have built an our BA Production Arts and R = Relaxed performance
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1 enviable record in preparing • BA (Hons) Contemporary Design and BA Production
4 singers of the highest calibre Performance Practice – Technology and Management See p44 for more details, or
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Subscriptions Get the Royal treatment
Book in advance for a whole series of See more of our fantastic performers – join our Royalty
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See all 4 concerts for £32 (£24 concessions) competitions throughout the year. 5
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See all 15 concerts for £120 (£90 concessions) Royalty 10 (10% off ticket price)
£10/yr (single), £17.50/yr (joint)
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See all 6 concerts for £40 (£31 concessions) Royalty 20 (20% off ticket price)
£20/yr (single), £35/yr (joint)
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See all 13 concerts for £88 (£67.50 concessions) Royalty 30 (30% off ticket price)
£30/yr (single), £52.50/yr (joint)
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New Athenaeum Theatre and Stevenson Hall which If you are aged 26 or under, come and see 2
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are only £5 for anybody all year round. These seats are any RCS show, in any seat for just £5. 0
limited, so please book early (See p45 for more details) Visit rcs.ac.uk/tickets26 for more info. 57
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war, Antigone’s dead brother
is deemed a traitor. When his
body is left unburied outside
the city walls, Antigone defies
King Creon’s orders and buries
her brother with the full honour
Drama he deserves, setting off a
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that test Antigone, the people of
Thebes and the will of the state
to the utmost.
Venue: New Athenaeum Theatre
Tickets: £5 - £15.50
(concessions available)
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“A daughter who is disobedient BSL interpreted
stops being a daughter and
becomes an enemy.” A dynamic blend of filmic and
theatrical ensemble storytelling,
Spain in the 1930s, before civil Davey Anderson’s darkly comic
war breaks out. Lorca tells the and subversive take on our
tale of a tyrannical matriarch, throw-away society explores
preoccupied with the one man’s story as he chooses 7
reputation of her family and to press pause on his life and
controlling the youthful reinvent himself.The first public
yearnings and growing outing at the RCS for the students
desires of her five daughters. of the new BA Performance
in British Sign Language and
Venue: Chandler Studio Theatre English degree programme, the
Tickets: £13.50 (£11 concessions) show will combine the unique
blend of physical, verbal and
visual storytelling capabilities
of the actors in a multimedia
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Simon Smith is an ordinary boy Thu 15 Dec / 12.30pm & 7pm
who is given extraordinary socks Fri 16 Dec / 12.30pm (R)
from a mysterious stranger. When & 7pm (BSL)
he finds out that Santa is in a
pickle and needs his help, Simon, A fun, thrilling and magical
his magic socks and a merry band adaptation of Hans Christian
of friends set off on a fantastical Andersen’s wintery tale.
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save Christmas for us all! spell on Kay - freezing his heart
and stealing him away to her Ice
A magical, interactive and fun- Palace - all part of her wicked
filled show for wee ones aged 3-6. plan to turn the world into
winter. But young Gerda has
Venue: Circle Studio, Citizens different ideas and undertakes
Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, a daring quest to rescue both
Glasgow, G5 9DS Kay and the world from the
Tickets: £8 (Family and nursery/ Snow Queen’s icy grip.
schools tickets available)
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Life’s but a walking shadow, a threatens Rome, the city calls
poor player, on her hero, Coriolanus. But
That struts and frets his hour famine threatens the city
upon the stage, and the people want change,
And then is heard no more.” so Coriolanus is forced to
confront the march of an angry,
A bloody, all female, tale of politicised and re-energised
the original killer couple, the people with disastrous 9
Macbeths, who murder their consequences. Conflict,
way to the Scottish throne. revenge and the power of the
Rapid political advancement people are all explored in this
and naked ambition at its most contemporary new staging of
ruthless and destructive, while Shakespeare’s political tragedy.
ghosts, witches and walking
woodland provide a backdrop Venue: Chandler Studio Theatre
to the rise and fall of two of Tickets: £13.50 (£11 concessions)
Shakespeare’s most flawed
characters.
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The Into the New 2017 BA Contemporary Performance
symposium, entitled “I Practice programme present
only went out for a walk” is a platform of inspiring and
inspired by the writings of 19th innovative new work. Several
century Scottish-American provocative performances will
naturalist and environmental be premiered from 4pm - 10pm
philosopher, John Muir. each day.
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Through a series of Venue and ticket details to
performative lectures, be announced. See rcs.ac.uk/
practitioners from an array boxoffice for details
of disciplines share their
experiences of what can
happen when an artist ventures
out into the landscape beyond
“the studio”.
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