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The Royal Court is the writers’ theatre. It is a leading force in world theatre, finding writers and producing new plays that are original and contemporary. The Royal Court strives to be at the centre of civic, political, domestic and international life, giving writers a home to tackle big ideas and world events and tell great stories.
The Royal Court commissions and develops an extraordinary quantity of new work, reading over 3000 scripts a year and annually producing around 14 world or UK premieres in its two auditoria at Sloane Square in London. Over 200,000 people visit the Royal Court each year and many thousands more see our work elsewhere through transfers to the West End and New York, national and international tours, residencies across London and site-specific work, including recent Theatre Local Seasons in Peckham, King’s Cross and Haggerston.
The Royal Court’s extensive development activity encompasses a diverse range of writers and artists and includes an ongoing programme of writers’ attachments, readings, workshops and playwriting groups. Twenty years of pioneering work around the world means the Royal Court has relationships with writers on every continent.
The Royal Court opens its doors to radical thinking and provocative discussion, and to the unheard voices and free thinkers that, through their writing, change our way of seeing.
“With its groundbreaking premieres and crusading artistic directors, the Royal Court has long enjoyed a reputation as one of our most daring, seat-of-its-pants theatres.” The Times
“The most important theatre in Europe.” New York Times
Within the past sixty years, John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Howard Brenton have all started their careers at the Court. Many others, including Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill and Sarah Kane have followed. More recently, the theatre has found and fostered new writers such as Polly Stenham, Mike Bartlett, Bola Agbaje, Nick Payne and Rachel De-lahay and produced many iconic plays from Laura Wade’s Posh to Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Royal Court plays from every decade are now performed on stage and taught in classrooms across the globe.
ROYAL COURT SUPPORTERS
The Royal Court has significant and longstanding relationships with many organisations and individuals who provide vital support. It is this support that makes possible its unique playwriting and audience development programmes.
Coutts supports Innovation at the Royal Court. The Genesis Foundation supports the Royal Court’s work with International Playwrights. Theatre Local is sponsored by Bloomberg. AlixPartners support The Big Idea at the Royal Court. The Jerwood Charitable Foundation supports emerging writers through the Jerwood New Playwrights series. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation supports the Royal Court’s Studio, which aims to seek out, nurture and support emerging playwrights. The Pinter Commission is given annually by his widow, Lady Antonia Fraser, to support a new commission at the Royal Court.
PUBLIC FUNDING Arts Council England, London British Council
CHARITABLE DONATIONS Martin Bowley Charitable Trust
Cowley Charitable Trust
The Dorset Foundation
The Eranda Foundation
Genesis Foundation
The Golden Bottle Trust
The Haberdashers’ Company
The Idlewild Trust
Jerwood Charitable Foundation
Marina Kleinwort Trust
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
John Lyon’ s Charity
Clare McIntyre’s Bursary
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The David & Elaine Potter Foundation
Rose Foundation
Royal Victoria Hall Foundation
The Sackler Trust
The Sobell Foundation
John Thaw Foundation
The Vandervell Foundation
Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement
The Garfield Weston Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation
CORPORATE SUPPORTERS & SPONSORS
AKA
Alix Partners
American Airlines
Aqua Financial Solutions Ltd
BBC
Bloomberg
Café Colbert
Coutts
Fever-Tree
Gedye & Sons
Kudos Film & Television
MAC
Moët & Chandon
Quintessentially Vodka
Smythson of Bond Street
White Light Ltd
BUSINESS ASSOCIATES, MEMBERS & BENEFACTORS Annoushka Auerbach & Steele Opticians Bank of America Merrill Lynch Byfield Consultancy Capital MSL Cream Lazard Vanity Fair Waterman Group
DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES Elizabeth Bandeen Anthony Burton CBE Piers Butler Sindy Caplan Sarah Chappatte Cas Donald (Vice Chair) Celeste Fenichel Piers Gibson Emma Marsh (Chair) Deborah Shaw Marquardt (Vice Chair) Tom Siebens Sian Westerman Daniel Winterfeldt
FOR THE ROYAL COURT
Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS Tel: 020 7565 5050 Fax: 020 7565 5001 [email protected], www.royalcourttheatre.com
Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone
Associate Directors Carrie Cracknell*, Hamish Pirie, John Tiffany*
Associate Director (Studio) Lucy Morrison*
Artistic Associates Ola Animashawun*, Emily McLaughlin*
Associate Artist Chloe Lamford*
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