VIDEO: Watch the trailer for RSC's Hecuba

The Royal Shakespeare Company have released the trailer for their production of Hecuba. Watch the video below.

Directed by the Royal Shakespeare Company's Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman, Hecuba runs at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon until 17th October 2015. A searing vision of war, womanhood and courage, inventively told. 

The cast includes David Ajao (Nepotolemus), Nadia Albina (Cassandra), Derbhle Crotty (Hecuba), Ray Fearon (Agamemnon), Edmund Kingsley (Polymestor), Amy McAllister (Polyxena), Chu Omambala (Odysseus) and Lara Stubbs (Xenia/Singer). 

Full casting announced for A Mad World My Masters 2015 UK Tour directed by Sean Foley

Full casting has been announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company and English Touring Theatre’s production of Thomas Middleton’s A Mad World My Masters. The show returns in 2015 for an eight venue national tour 

Sean Foley (who has edited the script with Phil Porter) directs with design by Alice Power, lighting by Johanna Town, sound and music by Ben and Max Ringham and choreography by Polly Bennett. Marieke Audsley is the Associate Director, Hannah Miller is the Casting Director and Alison de Burgh  is the Fight Choreographer.

A Mad World My Masters visits: Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (26 – 28 February), Grand Theatre Blackpool (5 – 7 March), Theatre Royal Brighton (10 – 14 March), Malvern Theatres (24 – 28 March),Hall for Cornwall (31 March – 4 April), Theatre Royal Bath (7 – 11 April), Darlington Civic Theatre (14 – 18 April) and Cambridge Arts Theatre (21 – 25 April) before playing a limited run at the Barbican (29 April – 9 May).