guardian.co.uk: The duo who have carried the Royal Shakespeare Company into both a fresh artistic era, and a new £112.8m theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, are to step down by the end of next year. Michael Boyd, the company's artistic director, and Vikki Heywood, its executive director, will leave simultaneously, they have announced.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
RSC's artistic director Michael Boyd announces final curtain
guardian.co.uk: The duo who have carried the Royal Shakespeare Company into both a fresh artistic era, and a new £112.8m theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, are to step down by the end of next year. Michael Boyd, the company's artistic director, and Vikki Heywood, its executive director, will leave simultaneously, they have announced.
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I think this move for Boyd and Heywood shows a tremendous amount of forethought and planning. We often hear about artistic staff leaving companies at the last minute or several people leave at the same time and it is suspicious. But here they have spent 10 years crafting RCS into what it is today and having created a solid base for others to continue their work they have decided to leave to pursue their other loves. I think this takes a lot of dedication. In the article Boyd talks about wanting to work closer with actors again and missing that connection. It's hard as you move towards administration in the theatre if you love being in a rehearsal room. I can understand the impulse to want to go back to that.
Um...does anyone else think that having the artistic and executive directors of a group as prominent as the Royal Shakespeare Company is dangerous? I've only seen one production of theirs (a BRILLIANT Romeo and Juliet done at the Park Avenue Armory this summer, where they have built a replica of the globe inside the space), but with such a caliber of work, I wonder how this transition process will go. These two brought the company up from pretty far down, and I hope they are leaving the company in good hands (it sounds like a selection committee is being put together, but I'm still skeptical of that). Either way, we'll see how things play out, and I'll certainly continue to support them through this transition as long as they keep making great art.
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