Shows at The Barbican

Merry Wives of Windsor

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West End
The Barbican
7th Dec 2018 - 5th Jan 2019

Down on his luck in the suburbs, Sir John Falstaff plans to hustle his way to a comfortable retirement by seducing the wives of two wealthy men. Unknown to him, it’s the women of Windsor who really pull the strings, orchestrating his comeuppance amid a theatrical smorgasbord of petty rivalries, jealousies and over-inflated egos...

Romeo and Juliet

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West End
The Barbican
2nd Nov 2018 - 19th Jan 2019

The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to the Barbican this autumn with a contemporary London Season comprising three of the playwright’s most loved titles: Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor...

Macbeth

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West End
The Barbican
15th Oct 2018 - 18th Jan 2019

The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to the Barbican this autumn with a contemporary London Season comprising three of the playwright’s most loved titles: Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor...

Barry Humphries Weimar Cabaret

Review
★★★★
Richard Beck
West End
The Barbican
14th Jul, 2018

Ernst Krenek, Erich Korngold, Frank Schreker, Erwin Schulhoff and Mischa Spoliansky were not household names in the late 1940s when a young Barry Humphries in Melbourne, Australia came across a stack of sheet music in his local bookstore published some twenty years earlier in Vienna, Austria by the distinguished Universal Edition...

Titus Andronicus

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London Fringe
The Barbican
7th Dec 2017 - 19th Jan 2018

The decay of Rome reaches vicious depths in Shakespeare’s most brutal and bloody play. ‘Consistently excellent’ (The Times), Blanche McIntyre directs the epic conclusion of the Rome Season...

Antony and Cleopatra

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London Fringe
The Barbican
30th Nov 2017 - 20th Jan 2018

One of Shakespeare’s greatest love stories, Antony & Cleopatra continues the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Rome season, picking up the story where Julius Caesar ends. Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power...

Julius Caesar

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London Fringe
The Barbican
24th Nov 2017 - 20th Jan 2018

Angus Jackson directs Shakespeare’s epic political tragedy, as the race to claim the empire spirals out of control. Caesar returns from war, an all-conquering hero, but mutiny is rumbling through the corridors of power...

Coriolanus

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London Fringe
The Barbican
6th - 18th Nov 2017

A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of the republic of Rome. Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless soldier but a reluctant leader...

The Tempest

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London Fringe
The Barbican
10th Jul - 18th Aug 2017

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s ground-breaking production of The Tempest transfers to London for a limited seven week run at the Barbican this summer. Simon Russell Beale plays Prospero in this ground-breaking production directed by RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran...

Cymbeline RSC

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London Fringe
The Barbican
1st - 17th Dec 2016

Shakespeare’s coming-of-age romance is stunningly retold for the 21st century with Gillian Bevan as Cymbeline, the first woman to take on the role for the Royal Shakespeare Company...

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