"It allows us to experiment and allows our audiences to join us as we test out newly hatched ideas - something we know they're hungry for." "This first festival is a chance to re-open a dialogue with contemporary writers and challenge the way that new work is produced in this country. Mr Boyd said: "Our Shakespeare productions will become shallow unless they relate to contemporary work which deals directly with the world we live in. It said it had committed to one of its "founding principles" by presenting new work alongside Shakespeare. The RSC said it planned to put new writing and experimental work "back on the map" with its two-week New Work Festival in September. It forms part of the RSC's first season under artistic director Michael Boyd.Ĭoupland was hailed as a spokesman for a "lost" generation with his novel about three young friends rejecting their place in a materialist society. Coupland was hailed as spokesman for a generationĬult author Douglas Coupland is to perform on stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company in a festival of new writing planned for the autumn.Ĭoupland, who wrote Generation X, will perform a rehearsed monologue about North America before 11 September 2001.
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