"George's storytelling is Shakespearean in its scale and its themes: dynastic struggle, ambition, rebellion, madness, prophecy, ill-fated love. From the beginning, Shakespeare's histories and tragedies have been our primary reference for the ambition of this production, so the RSC feels like a natural home."
"I never imagined that it would be anything other than a book, he said of the novel A Game of Thrones, which was published in 1996 and began a series with the collective title A Song of Ice and Fire. It was a place for my imagination to exist without limits, he continued. To my great surprise, it was adapted for a [TV] s"
The Royal Shakespeare Company will stage Game of Thrones: The Mad King, a theatrical prequel, in Stratford-upon-Avon this summer. Duncan Macmillan adapted the play and Dominic Cooke will direct; the collaboration was first announced in 2021. George R.R. Martin will serve as executive producer and has visited the company's armoury department. The production draws on Shakespearean histories and tragedies and foregrounds themes of dynastic struggle, ambition, rebellion, madness, prophecy and ill-fated love. Co-artistic directors Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans position the play within a continuum of history cycles and describe an exploration of authority through young people grappling with inherited identities.
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