The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced an additional run of its co-production of Troilus and Cressida at the Riverside

London theatregoers will get only their second chance in a decade to see renowned experimental theatre company the Wooster Group, after the Royal Shakespeare Company announced an additional run of its co-production of Troilus and Cressida.

Six RSC actors, including Scott Handy and Danny Webb, began rehearsing the Greek roles in London on Monday under the direction of that company's writer-in-residence, Mark Ravenhill. Rupert Goold had been due to direct, but was forced to drop out due to filming commitments.

The Wooster Group has already been rehearsing the Trojan characters in New York for some time, but the companies will not come together until the end of June. Scott Shepherd, who is also starring in Elevator Repair Service's Gatz in London in June, will play Troilus.

The two companies could hardly have more different approaches to theatre. The Wooster Group's previous stab at Shakespeare was a meticulous recreation of the 1964 Broadway Hamlet that starred Richard Burton, with actors attempting to replicate a film of the production. The RSC's most recent Hamlet featured David Tennant and Patrick Stewart.

One of the most hotly anticipated productions in the World Shakespeare festival, Troilus and Cressida was originally intended for a single, 15-night run at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in early August. However, it will now transfer to the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London, from 24 August–8 September.

The experimental ensemble was last at the Riverside a decade ago, when it performed a multimedia production of Racine's Phaedra entitled To You, the Birdie! Its only London performances since were of a dance piece entitled I Am Jerome Bel at Sadler's Wells in 2009, though the company has twice appeared at the Edinburgh international festival.

After stepping in to direct in April, Ravenhill said: "Troilus and Cressida is a play about the collision of two cultures – the Greeks and the Trojans. So it's exciting to reimagine the play with two companies whose histories are as divergent as the Wooster Group and the RSC."