Venus and Adonis

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Archive Listings for Venus and Adonis

T0943104063 (WILTON09) Company Transition Opera. Director Netia Jones. Conductor Christian Curnyn.
11 Feb 09 to 14 Feb 09	Wilton's Music Hall, Inner London :: V1165 listing details L01483442496
T01701840006 (COMPLETE07) Puppet versionCompany Royal Shakespeare Company (by arrangement with The Little Angel Theatre). Director Gregory Doran. Design Robert Jones. Design Lyndie White (puppets). Design Jan Zalud (puppets). Design John Roberts (puppets). Design Stefan Fichert (puppets). Design Simon Auton (puppets). Design Jungmin Song (puppets).
22 Mar 07 to 28 Apr 07	Little Angel Theatre, Inner London :: V209 listing details L01139744606
15 Mar 07 to 17 Mar 07	Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon :: V136 listing details L128117452
T0404034898 (RSC04) Inspired by both Japanese Bunraku puppets and Jacobean Court Masque, this production tells the story of Venus and Adonis with marionettes, rod, shadow and table-top puppets. Since May 2004, an international group of Puppet makers - from the Czech Republic, Germany and South Africa, has been hard at work in the Islington workshops, whilst the miniature costumes are being made in the RSC wardrobe department in Stratford-upon-Avon.Producer Royal Shakespeare Company. Producer Little Angel Theatre. Adapted by Gregory Doran. Director Gregory Doran. Director Steve Tipland (puppetry). Design Robert Jones. Design Lyndie Wright (puppets). Design Jan Zalud (puppets). Design John Roberts (puppets). Design Stefan Fichert (puppets). Design Simon Aauton (puppets). Music John Woolf. Performer Michael Pennington (narrator).
14 Oct 04 to 6 Nov 04	Little Angel Theatre, Inner London :: V209 listing details L01430476234
10 Oct 04	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon :: V135 listing details L01675270527
T0160723875 (REF99) A rare chance to see a rich and seductive staging of this mythological tale of love and loss.Director Sarah Wooley.
13 Aug 99 to 14 Aug 99	Open Air Theatre, West End :: V403 listing details L1350652664
Other listings
10 Nov 04 to 18 Dec 04	The Other Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon :: V137 listing details L02087293057
24 Nov 02	Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L01203423350

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Play :: (1593). Written by a youthful Shakespeare at the time that London's theatres closed their doors in fear of the Plague. Venus and Adonis is an epic poem of wit and sensuous beauty. It tells the tale of the sex goddess, Venus and her passionate obsession for the petulant and beautiful Adonis. He rejects her offer of love, preferring the joys of boar hunting. However, after finally succumbing to her advances, the story ends in tragedy.

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