Holding Fire!

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T01600830287 (GLOBE07)

Ranging from East End squalor to Nottingham mills, Jack Shepherd tells a picaresque tale of tavern assemblies and prize fights, gin palace communists and bullying do-gooders, industrialists and whores, bringing to the Globe for the first time the sordid, violent times of early Victorian England.Producer Shakespeare's Globe. Director Mark Rosenblatt. Design Janet Bird. Music John Tams. Music Joe Townsend. Performer Kirsty Besterman. Performer Philip Bird. Performer Cornelius Booth. Performer Jim Bywater. Performer Louise Callaghan. Performer Philip Cumbus. Performer Leander Deeny. Performer Craig Gazey. Performer Alice Haig. Performer Peter Hamilton Dyer. Performer Adam Kay. Performer Jennifer Kidd. Performer Pippa Nixon. Performer Jonathan Moore. Performer Christopher Obi. Performer Dale Rapley. Performer Mark Rice-Oxley. Performer Nicholas Shaw.

28 Jul 07 to 5 Oct 07

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165
listing details L118441867

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Play :: England 1837: a country on the cusp of revolution. A young girl is propelled on a journey from a London slum to the servants’ quarters of a great house, and from first love to murder. In her flight from authority she come across the Chartist William Lovett, a man striving to steer a middle course between the brutal coalition of Parliament and Industry and the angry forces gathering against it. But can his rational, moderate voice be heard above the din of government militias on one side and the roaring militancy of Feargus O’Conor on the other?

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