Details

Compelling, witty and often laugh-out-loud funny, this celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn leaps cunningly between generations to reveal the debt the outrageous yet scholarly James I owed to Anne when he reconciled England s religious factions by creating his common, ?authorised Bible. Hunting through an old chest, the newly crowned James discovers the controversial legacy of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII s notorious second wife. Time jumps back 70 years, when the witty and flirtatious Anne was in love with Henry, but also with the most dangerous ideas of her day. Conspiring with the exiled William Tyndale, she plots to make England Protestant. For ever.

Cast/Performers

James Garnon (King James I), Miranda Raison (Anne Boleyn), Michael Bertenshaw, Sam Cox, John Cummins, Naomi Cranston, Ben Deery, Mary Doherty, Sophie Duval, Will Featherstone, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Anthony Howell (Henry VIII), Colin Hurley, Dickon Tyrrell, Julius D'Silva

Creatives/Company

Author: Howard Brenton
Producer: Shakespeare's Globe
Director: John Dove
Design: Michael Taylor
Music: William Lyons