Details

Espionage, double-crossing and blackmail come to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in this new spy thriller with powerful contemporary echoes. Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham oversees a vast surveillance network from the heart of Elizabeth I's court. As the nation's relationship with Europe deteriorates and civil unrest grows, Walsingham adopts ever more extreme tactics to keep his queen and country safe. But does he risk losing control of the apparatus he has created and destroying the lives of those closest to him? And can such safety ever be achieved?

Cast/Performers

Tara Fitzgerald (Elizabeth), Edmund Kingsley (Robert Pooley), Cassie Layton (Frances Walsingham / Mary of Scots), Sam Marks (Sir Philip Sideny / Robert Southwell / Adam), Aidan McArdle (Sir Francis Walsingham), David Partridge (Anthony Babington / Miles / Howard), Abraham Popoola (John Ballard / Tom / Topcliffe / Doctor), Ian Redford (Sir William Cecil / Palmer), Colin Ryan (Phelippes / Davy)

Creatives/Company

Author: Anders Lustgarten
Director(s): Matthew Dunster, Isabel Marr (assistant), Rachel Bown-Williams (fight director), Ruth Cooper-Brown (fight director)
Design: Jon Bausor
Choreographer: Charlotte Broom
Music: Alexander Balanescu
Lighting: Malcolm Rippeth
Costume: Laura Hunt