{"id":850023,"date":"2025-01-10T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=850023"},"modified":"2025-01-12T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T11:00:25","slug":"the-royal-shakespeare-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/voices-from-the-archives\/the-royal-shakespeare-company-id850023.html","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Shakespeare Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">W<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">hen it comes to theatre, no one can bring people together quite like Shakespeare,<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> his <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">works <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">being w<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">ell-known and much performed across Eastern Europe, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">even at the height of the Cold War. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">T<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">he Royal Shakespeare Company\u2019s 1964 tour to celebrate the 400<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">th<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> anniversary of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">the Bard\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> birth was met with great enthusiasm behind the Iron Curtain. Bucharest was one of the cities in the eastern bloc visited by the company. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">n today\u2019s show we\u2019re bringing you a rare recording from what was to become one of the most memorable theatre productions to be staged in communist-era Romania: the legendary staging of King Lear by Peter Brook featuring Paul Scofield as Lear and Diana Rigg as Cordelia. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2007285591&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"RadioRomaniaInternational\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/radioromaniainternational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RadioRomaniaInternational<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Voices from the Archives 27.12.2024\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/radioromaniainternational\/voices-from-the-archives-27122024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voices from the Archives 27.12.2024<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to theatre, no one can bring people together quite like Shakespeare, his works being well-known and much performed across Eastern Europe, even at the height of the Cold War. 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