[1] Over Christmas 1987 the season ended with Branagh's production of Twelfth Night also at Riverside Studios, starring Richard Briers as Malvolio, Frances Barber as Viola, and with an original score directed on stage by Scottish actor, musician and composer Patrick Doyle (who later achieved fame as an international film composer).
[1] Although Renaissance received no public funding, it partnered in 1988 with John Adams and the Birmingham Rep on a touring season of plays launched as Renaissance Shakespeare on the Road, with three classical actors making their directing debuts: Judi Dench with Much Ado About Nothing; Geraldine McEwan with As You Like It; and Derek Jacobi with Hamlet, which featured Branagh in the title role.
Renaissance moved into different mediums such as Branagh's Academy Award-winning film version of Henry V but also by producing three Shakespeare plays on radio: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and finally, King Lear starring Sir John Gielgud.
The company's last two major stage productions were Uncle Vanya (with Richard Briers and Peter Egan) and Coriolanus produced in conjunction with the Chichester Festival Theatre and starring Branagh in the title role and Judi Dench as his mother, Volumnia.
[2] Online versions of the digitised prompt books from the company archive and the Henry V script and storyboards are also part of the University's collection.