Alas and alack, friends… Today the Royal Shakespeare Company announced a new partnership with BP for its £5 ticket scheme for 16 – 25 year olds. James Atherton, 23, who acted in one of of our on-stage protests last autumn, sums up our feelings today: ‘I am outraged that BP is targeting young people through … More Alas! The RSC is back in the arms of BP…
On stage. Without permission. In iambic pentameter. The Reclaim Shakespeare Company had a dramatic 2012. Where will our guerilla thespianism take us in 2013, asks founding player Richard Howlett? My boyfriend got some theatre vouchers for Christmas this year. If we wanted to go and see a Shakespeare production that was not sponsored by an … More How we reclaimed the Bard from BP
200 members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company took over the British Museum’s Great Court and performed a series of anti-BP plays yesterday. The flashmob of ‘actor-vists’ performed a re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the British Museum’s Great Court. The performance — which included 200 people chanting “double, double, oil is trouble; tar sands burn as … More ‘Shakespearean flashmob’ hits BP-sponsored British Museum
‘Twould seem that the Royal Shakespeare Company has seen sense. At the end of a season of plays sponsored by BP that has seen us invade the RSC’s stage five times: here, here, here, here and here; huge audience support for our anti-BP soliloquising; and even RSC actors and staff taking a stand, the RSC … More RSC backs away from world’s biggest corporate criminal
This film provides a peek behind the curtains of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company and our successful, creative campaign to kick BP out of UK theatres. Hear why the group was formed, how we have organised the stunts and what it feels like to jump on an RSC stage. Essential viewing for anyone with an interest … More New film: Behind the Curtains of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company
Join our theatrical flashmob: British Museum, 3pm, November 18th On Sunday November 18th, the Reclaim Shakespeare Company is leaving the theatre through the stage door… and marching straight into the British Museum’s Great Court, for a theatrical flashmob with our friends from Liberate Tate, UK Tar Sands Network, Art Not Oil, Rising Tide UK and … More ‘Out, Damned Logo!’ Shakespearean flashmob
Much Ado About BP from Zoe Broughton on Vimeo. Tonight, members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company jumped on stage at the Noël Coward theatre to deliver another surprise anti-BP performance. Just before the second half of a BP-sponsored Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) performance of Much Ado About Nothing was due to begin, the three actor-vists … More Much ado about BP sponsorship as West End play hit by protest
The story of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company and our most honourable quest to kick BP out of the theatre world is here presented in three acts. Tis a tale of greed, desperation and courage, in which the pencil is mightier than the sword.
Theatre staff failed to stop members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company jumping on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon and delivering a surprise anti-BP performance in front of a full house. On Saturday (29th September 2012), a group of merry players known as the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” took unexpectedly to the stage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in … More RSC hit by yet another on-stage protest over BP sponsorship
Egad! Wilst they never learn? Last night, the British Museum (in partnership with the RSC) ran an event called “Shakespeare Late”, which featured such delights as musical performances, stage make-up workshops and sonnet-themed scavenger hunts around the galleries. Splendid stuff, except that they’d gone and ruined it by getting it sponsored by that artless flax-bellied … More British Museum’s “Shakespeare Late” sees surprise anti-BP performances
BP or not BP? 