Details

Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets William Shakespeare, the Latin tutor. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. When the plague steals one of their children from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born. The story pulls back a curtain on the imagined family life of the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes and their children and is a love letter to passion, birth, grief and the magic of nature.

Cast/Performers

Gabriel Akuwudike (Bartholomew), Phoebe Campbell (Susanna), Mhairi Gayer (Tilly / Caterina / Landlady), Liza Sadovy (Mary), Sarah Belcher (Joan), Will Brown (Burbage / Father John), Ajani Cabey (Hamnet), Frankie Hastings (Eliza / Customer), Karl Haynes (Ned), Alex Jarrett (Judith), Madeleine Mantock (Agnes Hathaway), Hannah McPake (Jude), Tom Varey (William Shakespeare), Peter Wight (John / Will Kempe), Haydn Burke (off-stage understudy), Faye Campbell (off-stage understudy)

Creatives/Company

Book by: Maggie O'Farrell
Adapted by: Lolita Chakrabarti
Presented by(s): Royal Shakespeare Company, Neal Street Productions
Director(s): Erica Whyman, Amy Ball (CDG - casting), Ayse Tashkiran (movement)
Design: Tom Piper
Costume: Tom Piper
Lighting: Prema Mehta
Sound: Xana
Music: Oguz Kaplangi