The long-term future of the Royal Shakespeare Company in London is likely to be flatpack, albeit not something anyone would tackle alone with paper instructions and an Allen key.

Instead, this would be flatpack on an enormous scale: a 975-seat replica of its main auditorium in Stratford which could be constructed in London every time the RSC wanted to bring down its biggest productions.

The RSC's artistic director Michael Boyd announced last year that he was standing down after ten years in charge. He conceded on Monday that he was leaving with the question of a permanent home in London unresolved. But he said the answer could be found in the flatpack auditorium constructed over two weeks last year by the company in New York for productions that included King Lear and Julius Caesar. "It is perfectly positioned to be placed within some large four walls [in London] and be a temporary theatre that lasts for a hundred years. I would put money on that being part of the future solution."

The question remains however: where in central London could you build something akin to 140 tonnes of Meccano?

The RSC has become something of an itinerant company in the capital since it gave up its base at the Barbican 10 years ago. Most recently, it has staged performances at the Roundhouse in north London – which will continue – and the Novello in the West End.

Boyd was speaking at the launch of next winter's RSC programme, one he admitted was light on Shakespeare because of the World Shakespeare Festival that will dominate spring and summer as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

One of the highlights will be a new family production based on Russell Hoban children's book The Mouse and his Child. It follows a good run of family shows by the RSC, not least Matilda the Musical which is now in the West End and is within weeks of beginning to generate profits for the company.

From November, a trilogy of newly adapted international plays will be staged in the Swan theatre in a season called A World Elsewhere. They consist of the first major production outside China of a play sometimes called the Chinese Hamlet, The Orphan of Zhao; an adaptation of Pushkin's Boris Godunov, to be directed by Boyd in what will be his last production in charge; and Brecht's Galileo, adapted by the company's latest writer in residence, Mark Ravenhill.

There will also be a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The RSC also announced a new touring and education partnership with five regional theatres: the Newcastle Theatre Royal, the Hull truck, York Theatre Royal, the Nuffield in Southampton and the Hall for Cornwall in Truro.