Augustine's Oak

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T01189125304 (GLOBE99)

Director Tim Carroll (Master of Play and Verse). Design Roger Butlin (Master of Design). Music Tim Arnold (Master of Music). Performer Avril Clark (Angel/Priestess/Wessex Woman/Second Northumbrian). Performer Paul Chahidi (Lawrence/Pagan Priest). Performer Leader Hawkins (Aneirin). Performer Jan Knightley (Severus/Loki/Eumer). Performer Marcello Magni (Lilla). Performer Terry McGinity (Augustine). Performer Jules Melvin (Olwen). Performer Vincenzo Nicoli (Athelstan). Performer Sean O'Callaghan (Edwin). Performer Robert Pickavance (Paulinus/Woden/Colman/Priest). Performer Philippa Stanton (Tata). Performer Richard Trahair (Bishop of St David's/Osbert). Performer Martin Turner (Ethelbert/Bishop of Llandaff). Performer Yolanda Vazquez (Bertha).

6 Aug 99 to 24 Sep 99

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165
listing details L411909020

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Play :: Augustine's Oak, based on Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, tells the story of St Augustine's mission from Rome in 597AD to convert the pagan English. Sent by Pope Gregory the Great, Augustine and his monks land in Kent. Having struggled there to unite the pagan King Ethelbert with his Christian wife Bertha, Augustine finds his greatest challenge is to reconcile the breakaway Christians of the Celtic Church to the authority of Rome. Under an oak tree, the two traditions collide and the meeting changes the whole history of Britain. The first play written specifically for the new Shakespeare's Globe theatre (first performed 1999).

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