8 February 2023
Bloomsbury have announced that five new films are now available in the RSC Live collection on Bloomsbury’s Drama Online: Henry VI: Part 1; Henry VI: Part 2; Henry VI: Part 3; The Comedy of Errors; and The Winter's Tale.
Two more films, Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well will follow in July.
Offering students worldwide their own seat in the renowned Royal Shakespeare Company theatre, this collection continues to add new RSC productions as they are filmed, as the RSC works through Shakespeare's canon.
These films of 2021-2022 performances join 27 others in the RSC Live collection which includes: Hamlet, with award-winning Paapa Essiedu in the title role; King Lear, starring Sir Antony Sher; Othello with the first casting of a black actor as Iago; Richard II, starring David Tennant in the title role; a cutting-edge production of The Tempest starring Simon Russell Beale; and Twelfth Night, starring comedy icon Adrian Edmondson.