The Rover

Selected modern performances

2012 performance of The Rovers at Hudson Warehouse

Despite adaptations by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 (Swan Theatre) and 1987 (Mermaid Theatre in London), where the play's setting was altered to take place in the West Indies, most performances of the script in the past 25 years have been by experimental or smaller troupes. Other noted productions include:

  • University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Circle Theatre Company (1979). Directed by Michael Diamond.
  • Folger Theatre Group, Washington (1982).
  • Upstream Theatre, London (1984).
  • Williamstown Theatre Festival (1987).
  • Revel Players, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1990).
  • The Union Theatre, Peterborough, Ontario (1994).[5]
  • Queen's University Department of Drama, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (2000).[6]
  • Festival Playhouse, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan (2005) Directed by Karen Berthel.
  • Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus Stagecraft Production, Australia (2005) Directed by Patrick Mitchell
  • University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (2008).
  • Weitzenhoffer Theatre, University of Oklahoma (2008).
  • Fordham Theatre Company, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (2008) Edited and directed by Michael Goldfried.
  • Bank Street Theatre, New School, NYC (2008) Directed by Erica Gould.
  • Chinese Culture University, Taipei (2008).
  • Bing Theatre, University of Southern California (2009) Directed by Stefan Novinski.
  • Center for the Performing Arts, Illinois State University (2009) Directed by Chris Garcia Peak.
  • Department of Theater, Dance & Film, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (2009) Directed by Gian Giacomo Colli.
  • Department of Theatre, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia (2010) Directed by Grant Mudge.
  • Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Wales (2010) Directed by Richard Cheshire.
  • Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs, Providence, Rhode Island (2011) Adapted and Directed by Talya Klein.
  • Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (2012) Directed by Brian Brophy, Adapted by Ann Lindsey.
  • University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program (2012) Adapted/Directed by Joel Sass, performed by the graduating class of 2013.[7]
  • Thinking Cap Theatre, Fort Lauderdale. Directed by Nicole Stodard (8 February – 3 March 2013).[8]
  • Shotgun Players, Berkeley, California (2015).
  • Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Directed by LoveBday Ingram, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK (2016)
  • Department of English, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Directed by Sean Carney (2016)
  • Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Directed by David Bond, Adapted by John Barton (2016)
  • University of Manitoba/Blackhole Theatre Company, Directed by Magret Groome (2017)
  • Ithaca College, Directed by Greg Bostwick (2017)[9]
  • Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Australia, Directed by Eamon Flack (2017)
  • The Workshop Youth Theatre Group, Halifax, West Yorkshire (2018)
  • The Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Jackson & Canton, MI (2018) Adapted and Directed by Janice L Blixt[10]
  • Torn Out Theater (Aug 2018) outdoors in NYC's Prospect Park. The "gender-bending production will make selective use of nudity"[11]
  • University of Central Florida (2020)
  • Mary Baldwin University's Shakespeare and Performance Program (2023)

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