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We believe theatre engages best with audiences when it is created by artists who have worked together for many years. We are a company of actors who are dedicated to producing a repertory, strongly rooted in the classics, which reflects, enlightens, and informs our contemporary life.


Never have we, the RAC, felt more inspired by our mission:


“Our strength lies in the power of our ensemble, rooted in the classics which we know reflects, enlightens and informs our contemporary culture. We challenge conventional casting ideas about gender and age. We champion the inclusion of all ethnicities and identifications onto our stage, and into our company and audiences.”


All the world is a stage and all of us merely players, and how this act ends and the next begins is up to all of us.

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Three Script In Hand Performances Fall 2023


FIRST FOLIO EDITION
A Celebration of the 400th Birthday of Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623


We are presenting three plays that were first discovered in The First Folio!



Check Out Our Early Bird Specials: $20 for a limited time!


at The Players
Edwin Booth's Mansion on Gramercy Park
16 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY 10003






at
The Players
16 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY 10003



September 27th, 2023

A Script In Hand Performance of
Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare

6PM Cash Bar
7PM Script In Hand Performance
Followed by a Post Show Discussion

Duke Vincentio is taking a vacation from his duties, and he is leaving Angelo, his very upright and famously moral deputy in charge of the city. Angelo is surprised to find that his moral nature is not as inevitable as he believed, when he is confronted by Isabella who is pleading for her brother’s release from prison, and he takes a very nasty slide into a terrible abuse of his power. Surrounding this main plot are a motley crew of citizens of Vienna, who are navigating the laws of a city, and in their confusion provide some great comic relief. But is The Duke really gone? Has he set a trap for Angelo to test him? In this dark comedy about sex, justice, and morality we are left to ponder the nature of good and evil in all of us.


Tickets:

Early Bird Special: $20 Until Sept. 6 2023 (With No Fees!)
Regular Price: $40 (Includes Fees)
Day of Show: $50 (Includes Fees)

Please Note: All Sales Are Final
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October 25th, 2023

A Script In Hand Performance of
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

6PM Cash Bar
7PM Script in Hand Performance
Followed by a Post Show Discussion

Viola is shipwrecked and looking for her twin brother in the strange land of Ilyria, and she disguises herself to become a young man named Cesario. She meets the Duke Orsino, who speaks with great passion of his love for a local woman named Olivia who wants nothing to do with him. So he employs Cesario to be his intermediary, but Olivia takes a fancy to the young messenger, and then the fun really begins! We are also treated to a crazed sub plot to undermine and humiliate Olivia’s very correct, and puritanical servant Malvolio. Sir Toby Belch, and his sidekick Sir Andrew Aguecheek team up with the clown Feste to trick Malvolio into thinking that Olivia is actually in love with him. Shakespeare sets up many contrasts in this riotous, somewhat mean-spirited comedy, so that we can examine what happens when chaos and order are thrown together and swirled about in the random whirly gig of life.

Tickets:
Early Bird Special: $20 Until Oct 4 2023 (With No Fees!)
Regular Price: $40 (Includes Fees)
Day of Show: $50 (Includes Fees)

Please Note: All Sales Are Final
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at
The Players
16 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY 10003









at
The Players
16 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY 10003



November 16th, 2023

A Script In Hand Performance of
The Tempest by William Shakespeare

6PM Cash Bar
7PM Script In Hand Performance
Followed by a Post Show Discussion

Prospero is the exiled Duke of Milan who, along with being a duke, also happens to possess great magical powers. Twelve years before the play starts he escaped a coup d’état in his home country with his young daughter Miranda in tow, and together they have been living on an island while he bides his time and plunges deeper into his magic. Now as he sees his old enemies passing by in a ship, it is time to get his revenge. The action of the play takes place over the course of one day, and it is jam packed with magical creatures, comic villains, and a sublot involving Caliban, who was born on the island, and who Prospero has forced into servitude. Shakespeare creates some truly beautiful poetry in this fantastical play that seems at times like a love poem to the theatre. Prospero is far from a perfect hero though, and we are compelled to attempt to reconcile his acts of violence, and his horrendous treatment of Caliban, with his genius. Prospero himself is forced to face this dichotomy as well, and when he does, the play goes into some interesting and unexpected places.


Tickets:

Early Bird Special: $20 Until Oct 26 2023 (With No Fees!)
Regular Price: $40 (Includes Fees)
Day of Show: $50 (Includes Fees)

Please Note: All Sales Are Final

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The Resident Acting Company has been putting on performances since 2018. Before the pandemic we produced script in hand performances at The Players in New York City.

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During the dark days of the pandemic The RAC produced a series of online events called: Play Dates

Audience members read a play in advance and then joined a live Zoom meeting that was hosted by Artistic Associate Kate Farrington. Kate gave a presentation of the background of the play and playwright, actors read selected scenes, and we ended with a Q and A where the audience could join the conversation.

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