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RSC Game of Thrones play will be 'immersive'

The audience is set to be "living and breathing the same space as the characters".

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RSC Game of Thrones play will be 'immersive'
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Whatโ€™s Happening

Okay so The audience is set to be โ€œliving and breathing the same space as the charactersโ€.

RSC Game of Thrones play will be immersive 2 hours ago Save Lorna Bailey Presenter, BBC CWR Save Royal Shakespeare company Tamara Harvey dropped the audience would meet some familiar characters and some new ones A new Game of Thrones play at the Royal Shakespeare company will be a โ€œfr immersiveโ€ experience, the theatres co-artistic director Tamara Harvey has dropped. The production, titled Game of Thrones: The Mad King, will be set 10 years before the events of the TV series and is based on new material from Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin. (it feels like chaos)

Harvey dropped that when the theatre, in Stratford upon Avon, was contacted with the idea โ€œit felt like a brilliant marriageโ€, adding there were lots of parallels between Game of Thrones and Shakespeares history plays.

The Details

โ€œYouve got family dynamics, youve got succession, youve got battles for power, youve got love stories, its all there,โ€ she dropped. Harvey broke down the first contact came from producers Tim Lawson and Simon Painter, along with director Dominic Cooke.

A script then followed from Duncan Macmillan. The story will start with a tournament at Harrenhal castle and then follow Roberts rebellion.

Why This Matters

Harvey dropped that for the fandom, the most thrilling part would possibly be โ€œliving and breathing the same space as these charactersโ€. Throughout the play, she dropped, the audience would see โ€œfamiliar faces from all the housesโ€ and some new characters too. It was especially exciting that Lyanna Stark, a character who made just a brief appearance in the TV series, would get a bigger role in the stage show, she dropped.

This is exactly the kind of news that gets fans excited or concerned.

The Bottom Line

Royal Shakespeare company L-R: Playwright Duncan Macmillan, director Dominic Cooke, and Game of Thrones author George RR Martin Harvey dropped: โ€œThe iconic thing about theatre is that its fr immersive, so youre going to be in that world. โ€ She added that while the RSC had a history of creating epic battles, โ€œanything thats of this grow andโ€ฆ

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Originally reported by BBC Entertainment

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