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ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE
The Royal National Theatre was founded in 1976 by Laurence Olivier and is one of three of the UK's most well-known publicly funded performing arts venues and companies in the UK, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. They are most well-known for making the theatre adaptations of War Horse and One Man, Two Guv'nors. There are eight theatres owned by the National theatre, the three most well-known theatres all situated at South Bank in London. These three being the Olivier Theatre, the Lyttelton Theatre and the Dorfman Theatre. The Olivier Theatre (named after Lawrence Olivier) is the largest theatre owned by the National Theatre. It seats 1,150 people on an open stage. A recent production include This House and War Horse. Another theatre owned by The National Theatre is called the Lyttelton Theatre. Named after Oliver Lyttelton, can seat 890 and can fit an orchestra of up to 20 musicians, or make it an open stage, or add a forestage for the actors onstage to move around and interact with the audience. The last theatre is called The Dorfman Theatre. This particular theatre is used for new productions that can shown to audiences up to 450 people, that ascends in height as the seats go up in numbers. Others include the New London theatre, currently playing WAR HORSE, starring James Backway and Ben Murray, the Wyndham's Theatre, currently playing THE FATHER starring Kenneth Cranham and Claire Skinner and the Gielgud Theatre, currently playing THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, starring Sion Daniel Young and Rebecca Lacey. They tend to produce plays and stories written in a book, such as War Horse, written by Michael Morpurgo and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon, and in this case not aimed for a more younger target audience. I would say the target audience for the type of shows produced by the National Theatre would be teenagers to middle aged audiences. I believe viewers from a younger audience might find these type of shows boring, or they might not understand the purposes of the shows.
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company based in Stratford, England. It has employed over 700 staff and produces a massive 20 shows a year. The company has recently been re-developed as part of a 'Transformation' project, costing 112.8 billion pounds, involving its two main theatres in which they perform in: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre and The Swan Theatre in 2010. The company normally produces the works of William Shakespeare (hence Royal SHAKESPEARE Company). His works include Henry V, which is currently being played at the Barbican Theatre in London, but the Royal Shakespeare Company produces new productions made by artists of a modern era, or from a time much further on from Shakespeare, such as Wendy and Peter Pan, currently being played at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Love for Love, currently being played at the Swan Theatre. The Royal Shakespeare Company has two permanent theatres in Stratford. Their main theatre being the Royal Shakespeare theatre (originally named Shakespeare Memorial Theatre) which re-opened in 2010 after the 112.8 billion pound 'Transformation' project. It can hold over 1,000 people (1,060 to be exact) and is currently playing Wendy and Peter Pan, written by Ella Hickson. The other theatre is named the Swan Theatre, opened in 1986, a slightly smaller theatre, holding over 400 people (461) and is currently playing Love for Love, written by William Congreve (1670 - 1729) and Queen Anne, written by Helen Edmundson. It also has another theatre named The Courtyard Theatre, based in Stratford. It seats over 1,000 people and hosted performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company between August 2006 and 2010, when both the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Swan Theatre were both being re-developed between 2007 and 2010. The kind of productions this company puts on are the works on William Shakespeare and his plays, including Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. But the Royal Shakespeare Company also produces new work from living artists with theatre-makers from around the world, including The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, written by Charles Dickens and adapted to the stage by David Edgar and also Matilda The Musical by Dennis Kelly (book) and Tim Minchin (music and lyrics) based on the tale 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl. Compared to the Royal Shakespeare Company, I believe the target audience for these type of productions have varied over the years. The majority of these productions are aimed at adults aged between 20-60, who are interested in the works of Shakespeare or its famous actors involved in a production familiar with Royal Shakespeare Company, for example David Tennant (Hamlet, Richard II) and Patrick Stewart (Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, A Christmas Carol), which is similar to Royal National Theatre. The difference between these two is that throughout the years, the productions of Royal Shakespeare Company have appealed more to a younger audience, aged between 6-8, with the release of Matilda the Musical in 2012, compared to the Royal Shakespeare Company which produces stage-shows that are aimed at more of a older audience, aged 16-40.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre - Royal National Theatre
http://www.warhorseonstage.com/about/cast-creatives/ - Cast and Creatives of War Horse
http://www.curiousonstage.com/cast-creative/ - Cast and Creatives of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/venue/olivier-theatre - Olivier Theatre
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/venue/lyttelton-theatre - Lyttelton Theatre
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/venue/dorfman-theatre - Dorfman Theatre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company - Royal Shakespeare Company
https://www.rsc.org.uk - List of shows that are currently being played at Royal Shakespeare theatres
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_in_Royal_Shakespeare_Company_productions - Actors that have played various parts in Royal Shakespeare Company productions
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