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Article: For the Royal Shakespeare Company, the play's the thing.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 5, 2007
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Byline: james c. taylor Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
In the arts world, there are few organizations with the brand recognition of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The RSC's current US tour features Sir Ian McKellen playing the role of King Lear, a casting coup which has further burnished the RSC's reputation as the world's foremost interpreters of the Bard.
But is the RSC really the definitive Shakespeare theater troupe? And are tickets to a string of US tour dates worth the thousands of dollars some scalpers are selling them for?
The RSC, in its current form, really only dates back to the 1960s - which is not even as old as ...