Talk:Royal Shakespeare Company

message: David Cross worked with the RSC?  Really?  I suppose it's possible, but if he really did then maybe someone can reference it on the wiki about him that is being linked to.
: No, he didn't. I'm going to delete him. Old Moonraker 13:22, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Waterman was a child actor and played Mamillius in Winter's Tale and a boy player in  The Shrew of 1960. As an adult he was in Saratoga at the Aldwych in 1978. --Old Moonraker 14:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: wow, I've learnt something new! cheers Mujinga 14:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

text:  I have no deleted all the actors, who have no article in wikipedia. Except Chuck Iwuji and David Waller, who I both have seen on the stage of the RSC myself. For all the others I would suggest, that first an article is written, in which the performances for the RSC are noted, and that then the name is added to the list of the notable RSC actors. Otherwise this list is getting so long,that almost no one can keep track or differ between the really notable ones and those, who got the attention of a contributor to wikipedia. Anne-theater (talk) 21:27, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Notable" has been very widely stretched on this page until now—thank you for this WP:BOLD edit. I'm pleased you kept David Waller, though, I keep meaning to get round to him! --Old Moonraker (talk) 22:10, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

text: The section has been so diluted by recentism it now has no value. As User:Amo. --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:20, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps a way out for this section, and the the other listy sections, is to rewrite them as prose and set the bar at anyone that you can't find a (sourced) sentence or two about probably shouldn't be included. I suspect the problem lies with the list format; it encourages willy-nilly addition of new items. --Xover (talk) 23:35, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think, there are now so many actors listed, that it is almost a full list of everyone, who ever stood on the stage in Stratford. E.g. Art Malik, he seems to have been working in Stratford, but in the article about him, there is no production listed or further information about his work on the stage. He might even have been a spear-bearer! It seems, that the category notable actor is defined so broad by now, that it has become worthless. Perhaps it should be sized down to those actors, who have been in a major role or title role in Stratford. Otherwise, they should be deleted. Anne-theater (talk) 01:12, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Yep, he was a member: 1985-6, but in London residencies (Almeida and Barbican) rather than Stratford. Thanks, as ever, to Simon Trowbridge's Stratfordians for this information. --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:53, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable RSC Actors .. or not?

message: AFAIK Peter Land only had one major role with the company, that of Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1981. This doesn't really qualify him as a notable member of the company, or does it? The name of the editor who listed him might be a joke, of course...   I'm inclined to rv this.   Old Moonraker 16:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Gillian Lynne is notable and was overdue for an entry of her own, though. Old Moonraker 15:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Peter: any cast member from Nunn's truly memorable 1981 All's Well That Ends Well has sufficient claim to fame in my book, but not in Simon Trowbridge's, which is what I'm relying on here. When I saw you in Winters Tale you were "Dion, a Sicilian Lord", rather than Polixenes. Some modesty: weren't you the deviser of Man Alone? --Old Moonraker (talk) 21:10, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

text: Trowbridge: The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company . --Old Moonraker (talk) 06:09, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Peter Land

message: I tried to put the references into a more 'traditional' version. But as most of them are weblinks, it looked not as it should have. Is there a possibility to write these references in a different way? Anne-theater 20:53, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you tried using the most apt template from the WP:CIT page and using it with the <ref> tag? It's a good way to get consistency, but it can be tedious. --Old Moonraker (talk) 22:10, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: No mention of their edition of WS's complete works? Peter jackson (talk) 16:04, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect it's far too recent as yet. While there have been some news stories about it, there hasn't been time to asess whether it has sufficient notability (and what form that notability takes) to merit inclusion. When the established critical editions (Arden, Oxford, Norton, &c.) or journals start citing it or referring to it we'll see the whether and how to include it. --Xover (talk) 16:14, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a review in Shakespeare Survey, 61 (2008). It says (page 394) "The RSC Shakespeare is the first freshly edited Complete Works since the Oxford Shakespeare of 1986" but is generally negative. Peter jackson (talk) 10:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Another review in Shakespeare Quarterly, 59, pp 483-8. Also rather negative, or at least expressive of disappointment. Peter jackson (talk) 10:47, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works 

message: I can not find anything about his performances in Stratford in the article about this actor. Was he in Stratford and is he notable enough to be mentioned in the article? Anne-theater (talk) 00:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sir Herbert is certainly notable enough: any critical edition (Arden, Oxford, &c.) of Shakespeare's plays is very likely to have an entry for Beerbohm-Tree, Herbert (grabbed from the nearest example, my Arden 3rd of Hamlet; the Oxford Hamlet omits him, but only, I surmise, because whomever created its index was a blistering imbecile). As one of the more prominent Shakespearian actors of his day I find it very much plausible that he acted at Stratford at some point, but given the timing—he was an actor–manager who staged his own productions of Shakespeare (e.g. MacBeth in 1911), and died in 1917, while the RSC qua RSC didn't start until 1959—I would tend to doubt it. --Xover (talk) 01:16, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Beerbohm Tree?

message: The existing section doesn't read well, seeming to have a rather favourable bias.  Could someone with comprehensive knowledge of the topic provide some revision, please?
For example, phrasing like "Talking of these achievements with typical modesty..." sets a tone too cosy to be truly encyclopedic and, in particular, only covering the positive achievements whilst merely referring readers to a printed book for a more critical view reads as uncomfortably partial.  Rather than refer out,could someone summarise the key points of criticism here, please?
Ministry (talk) 16:57, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: 21st Century history

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I have tagged this article as I believe the History section is heavily biased against the actions of certain directors and staff, and the claims made are poorly sourced when they are sourced at all. I will return to the article when I have a chance to try and produce a more neutral tone in the history from the available sources, but it will almost certainly require an expert's attention to properly rectify. Triptothecottage (talk) 10:37, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you'll have to be more specific about your concerns to enable anyone to address them. --Xover (talk) 07:20, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV dispute 

message: Well,we have presentation at school that's why I'm finding any information about Royal Shakespeare on. Our topic is based in this company. Alphadjodia (talk) 00:41, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presentation at school 

message: The Article states the RSC was founded in 1879, but also states its founder was a man born in 1930.  Unless he is a time traveller something has gone amiss. 2A00:23C7:C82:3101:E994:8341:9E8F:E26B (talk) 22:17, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Founded