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

Colin Hurley (Cardinal Wolsey), Will Featherston (Sloop), John Cummins (Simpkins), Michael Bertenshaw (Cecil), Julius D'Silva (Thomas Cromwell), Holly Morgan (Lady Celia), Mary Doherty (Lady Rochford), Claire Bond (Lady Jane), Edward Peel (Dean Lancelor Andrewes), James Garnon (King James I), Jo Herbert (Anne Boleyn), Robert Fitch (Dr John Reynolds), David Sturzaker (Henry VIII), Michael Camp (George Villiers / Countryman), Luke McConnell (Ensemble), Beth Cooper (Ensemble), Max Gell (Ensemble), Christopher Birch (Ensemble)

Creatives/Company

Author: Howard Brenton
Producer: Shakespeare's Globe
Company: English Touring Theatre
Director(s): John Dove, Daniel Burgess (assistant)
Design: Michael Taylor
Music: William Lyons
Lighting: Pau Russell