Performance

Venue	Southwark Playhouse Borough
	Other spaces: The Large, The Little
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	26th April 2017
Opened	28th April 2017
To	27th May 2017
When	20:00. Apr 29, May 2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 27 Mats 15:30
What is currently on at Southwark Playhouse Borough (V226)

The Cardinal

T1146325752
The state of Navarre is in crisis. An unscrupulous Cardinal has the ear of the King and is hungry for power. The Duchess Rosaura longs to marry the Count D'Alvarez, but the Cardinal wants her for his brutish nephew. To tighten his grip on the Kingdom, the ruthless Cardinal will stop at nothing to secure the marriage. But in the Duchess it seems he has finally met his match... Hailed as James Shirley's tragic masterpiece, The Cardinal (1641) was one of the last plays staged in England before Oliver Cromwell's ban on theatre. With remarkably lucid and fast-paced dialogue, it is the captivating story of a religious monster and his relentless pursuit of power.

Author

James Shirley

Archive :: production:T1146325752, play:S0910528461, venue:V226

Reviews

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Company

Director	Justin Audibert
Design	Anna Reid
Lighting	Peter Harrison
Sound	Max Pappenheim
Director	Bret Yount (fight director)
Director	Natasha Harrison (movement director)
Performer	Stephen Boxer
Performer	Natalie Simpson
Performer	Sophia Carr-Gomm
Performer	Phil Cheadle
Performer	Ashley Cook
Performer	Marcus Griffiths
Performer	Patrick Osborne
Performer	Jay Saighal
Performer	Timothy Speyer
Performer	Paul Westwood
Performer	Rosie Wyatt

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