RSC brings stage adaptations of Woolf and Clarke novels to the Swan
The Royal Shakespeare Company is taking on ambitious stage adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s *Mrs Dalloway* and Susanna Clarke’s *Piranesi*, novels whose focus on characters’ inner lives makes them difficult to translate for theatre. The productions reflect the RSC’s wider effort to bring literary works to its stages alongside Shakespeare, and will be presented in its Swan theatre.
Tamara Harvey will direct *Mrs Dalloway*, adapted by Zoe Cooper, opening in April. *Piranesi*, adapted by Sami Ibrahim and directed by Ned Bennett, centres on a man living in a vast, mysterious mansion and is also planned for the Swan. The season includes Elizabeth Debicki as Richard II and Damien Molony as Coriolanus; *Born With Teeth* replaces the postponed *Othello* while Sharon D Clarke receives cancer treatment.
- RSC to stage challenging adaptations of *Mrs Dalloway* and *Piranesi*.
- *Mrs Dalloway* opens in the Swan theatre in April.
- *Born With Teeth* replaces the postponed *Othello*.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “RSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway”.