Other theatre includes: Appropriate, Becoming: Part One, Salt Root & Roe (Donmar); Henry VI, Richard III [as candlelight consultant] (Sam Wanamaker); Gaslight (Watford Palace); Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic); Leave to Remain, The seagull, Shopping & Fucking (Lyric, Hammersmith); The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, Snow in Midsummer, The Roaring Girl (RSC); Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, The Chronicles of Kalki (Gate); Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); King Lear (Globe); Dutchman, The Secret Agent, Fireface, Disco Pigs, Sus (Young Vic); Bank on it (Theatre-Rites/Barbican); On the Record, it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Arcola); Paradise, Salt (Ruhr Triennale, Germany); Gambling, This Wide Night (Soho); Rutherford & Son, Ruby Moon (Northern Stage); …Sisters (Headlong); King Pelican, Speed Death of the Radiant Child (Drum, Plymouth).

Dance includes: Mothers, Soul Play (The Place); Refugees of a Septic Heart (The Garage); View from the Shore, Animule Dance (Clore ROH).

Opera includes: Don Carlo (Grange Park); Orlando (WNO/Scottish Opera/San Francisco); Cendrillon (Gyndebourne); Ruddigore (Barbican/Opera North/UK Tour); Critical Mass (Almeida); Songs from a Hotel Bedroom, Tongue Tied (Linbury ROH); The Bartered Bride (Royal College of Music); Against Oblivion (Toynbee Hall).

The Royal Court Theatre

THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE

The Royal Court Theatre is the writers’ theatre. It is a leading force in world theatre for cultivating and supporting writers - undiscovered, emerging and established.

Through the writers, the Royal Court is at the forefront of creating restless, alert, provocative theatre about now. We open our doors to the unheard voices and free thinkers that, through their writing, change our way of seeing.

Over 120,000 people visit the Royal Court in Sloane Square, London, each year and many thousands more see our work elsewhere through transfers to the West End and New York, UK and international tours, digital platforms, our residencies across London, and our site-specific work. Through all our work we strive to inspire audiences and influence future writers with radical thinking and provocative discussion.

The Royal Court’s extensive development activity encompasses a diverse range of writers and artists and includes an ongoing programme of writers’ attachments, readings, workshops and playwriting groups. Twenty years of the International Department’s pioneering work around the world means the Royal Court has relationships with writers on every continent.

Within the past sixty years, John Osborne, Samuel Beckett, Arnold Wesker, Ann Jellicoe, Howard Brenton and David Hare have started their careers at the Court. Many others including Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, debbie tucker green, Sarah Kane – and, more recently, Lucy Kirkwood, Nick Payne, Penelope Skinner and Alistair McDowall – have followed.

The Royal Court has produced many iconic plays from Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children to Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen.

Royal Court plays from every decade are now performed on stage and taught in classrooms and universities across the globe.