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The life of Thomas More. 'I do nobody harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live.' Thomas More spoke these words at the end of a long period of persecution and imprisonment during which he had used all of his extraordinary intelligence and lawyer's wiles to avoid execution. Robert Bolt's finest play shows us how this scholar, ambassador, Lord Chancellor and friend of the king sacrificed the good life and the family he loved for a matter of conscience. His dealings with the great figures of the time - Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, the Duke of Norfolk and Henry VIII himself - are seen through the eyes of the common man, the poor cynic for whom a conscience would be a great inconvenience.

Cast/Performers

Martin Shaw (Sir Thomas More), Tony Bell (The Common Man), Alison Fiske (Alice More), Sophie Shaw (Margaret More), Gregory Fox-Murphy (Richard Rich), John Sackville (Will Roper), Clive Kneller (Chapuys), Clive Carter (Cromwell), Paul Shelley (Norfolk), Daniel Flynn (Henry VIII), Brian Poyser (Cardinal Wolsey), Tim Frances (Cranmer), Maev Alexander (The Woman), Tim Daish (Chapuys' Attendant)

Creatives/Company

Author: Robert Bolt
Producer: Bill Kenwright
Director: Michael Rudman
Design: Paul Farnsworth
Lighting: Nick Richings
Music: Ewan Anderson
Sound: Colin Pink