The Last Confession

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T0623677084 (CHICHESTERFEST07) Running time approx. 2 hours 30 minutesCorporate Sponsor Hendy Ford. Corporate Sponsor Lockheed Martin. Producer Duncan C Weldon. Producer Paul Elliott (Paul Elliott (for Triumph Entertainment Ltd). Producer Theatre Royal Haymarket Productions. Producer Festival Theatre Chichester. Director David Jones. Design William Dudley. Costume Fotini Dimou. Lighting Peter Mumford. Music Dominic Muldowney. Performer David Suchet (Cardinal Benelli). Performer Joseph Mydell (Cardinal Cantin). Performer Michael Cronin (Cardinal Suenens). Performer Paul Foster (Father Lorenzi). Performer Maroussia Frank (Sister Vincenza). Performer John Franklin Robbins (Cardinal Ottaviani). Performer Michael Jayston (The Confessor). Performer Charles Kay (Cardinal Felici). Performer Joseph Long (Cardinal Lorscheider). Performer Bernard Lloyd (Cardinal Villot). Performer Roger May (Monsignor Magee). Performer Christopher Mellows (Dr Buzzonetti/Thomas). Performer Stuart Milligan (Bishop Marcinkus). Performer Richard O'Callaghan (Cardinal Luciani). Performer Bruce Purchase (Cardinal Baggio). Performer Clifford Rose (Pope Paul VI).
28 Jun 07 to 15 Sep 07	Haymarket, Theatre Royal, West End :: V396 listing details L1349317639
18 Jun 07 to 23 Jun 07	Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes :: V754 listing details L0870733048
11 Jun 07 to 16 Jun 07	Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L02056082813
4 Jun 07 to 9 Jun 07	Theatre Royal, Bath :: V854 listing details L506140618
29 May 07 to 2 Jun 07	Theatre Royal, Plymouth :: V895 listing details L01829161587
27 Apr 07 to 19 May 07	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester :: V719 listing details L1264975302

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Play :: The Vatican 1978: a little-known Cardinal from Venice is elected to succeed Pope Paul VI. A compromise candidate, he takes the name Pope John Paul I, and quickly shows himself to be the liberal the reactionaries within the Catholic Church most feared. Just thirty-three days later, he is dead. No official investigation is conducted, no autopsy is performed, and the Vatican’s press release about the cause of death is later found to be, in large part, false. And just the evening before his death, John Paul had warned three of his most influential but hostile Cardinals that they would be replaced. His death marks the climax of fifteen troubled years of controversy and machination within the Church; schisms threaten its unity and the shadow of the Mafia hovers over its financial affairs. Only Cardinal Benelli has the power to challenge the dead Pope's enemies. This incisive thriller tracks the dramatic tensions, crises of faith and political manoeuvrings inside the Vatican surrounding the death of the man known as 'the Smiling Pope’

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