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Welcome to On the Verge 2024
Watch Jeremy Crawford, RCS Classical and Contemporary Text Alum and star of Netflix’s The Witcher, introduce our 2024 edition of On the Verge.
Watch On the Verge 2024
An Invitation
Life is knocking, inviting you to a new chapter. This story might not have a happy ending. Will you answer?
Driftwood
Haunted by visions of a childhood nightmare, a stranger returns to her birthplace for answers, but dreams and reality start merging as she uncovers the truth about her past.
Playback
As Jess embarks on a new stage of life, an unexpected diagnosis disrupts her world, reshaping relationships and challenging the definitions of responsibility, connection, and love.
Exposing Yui Atari
A tumultuous week in the life of ‘Yui Atari’, a world-famous lifestyle influencer, who has started to sacrifice her personal life to preserve her online presence.
Those Years After
Charlie and Fergus’s relationship is facing challenges. They have to face up to them over one chaotic dinner exploring friendship and love in your twenties.
Homies
After a recent breakup, Vape finds himself lugging a mattress to his new flat. Homies explores how unlikely friendships form and how these bonds can make us feel home.
About On The Verge
On The Verge has been part of the RCS performance calendar for over 10 years, during which time many of the artists have gone on to tour their work nationally and beyond. It is a showcase of new work by our MA/MFA Classical and Contemporary Text Acting and Directing students, celebrating big ideas and big ambition – a step into the unknown.
Our 2024 edition of On The Verge will take place July-August 2024 and will be entirely digital, available to view on this page. The work is wide-ranging, exploring stories, ideas and questions from the deeply personal to the socio-political and beyond. The projects are united in a shared desire to explore what might be possible both in front of and behind the camera.
Meet the Students
A Masters for Actors & Directors
Our MA/MFA Acting/Directing Classical and Contemporary Text programme is for actors and directors who use their social, moral, and ethical values to animate their practice.
Our actors and directors look beyond traditional and contemporary artistic approaches as they broaden and deepen their individual practice, and flourish as both learners and creative practitioners.
Graduates include Jeremy Crawford, Ayana Bey, Debbie Hannan and Eklovey Kashyap.