Details
Written 1997. A play about the poet A E Housman, auther of 'A Shropshire Lad'. Housman was also a great, though not well loved, classical scholar. Poetry, scholarship and love and entwined in this sympathetic view of a private life lived parallel to the public career of his near-contemporary Oscar Wilde. The story is not a literal biography. Winner of Best Play Award in the 1997 Evening Standard Awards.
Cast/Performers
Simon Russell Beale (A E Housman),
Dickie Beau (Oscar Wilde),
Stephen Boxer (Dr Jowett / Labouchere),
Jonnie Broadbent (Pater / Harris),
Seamus Dillane (Pollard),
Florence Dobson (Katharine Housman),
Peter Landi (Pattison / Postgate),
Ben Lloyd-Hughes (Jackson),
Michael Marcus (Chamberlain / Ellis),
Dominic Rowan (Juskin / Stead / Jermone K Jerome),
Matthew Tennyson (Housman),
Alan Williams (Charon)
Creatives/Company
Author:
Tom StoppardProducer:
Hampstead TheatreDirector(s):
Blanche McIntyre,
Polly Bennett (movement),
Matt Dann (assistant),
Anna Cooper (CDG - casting)
Design:
Morgan LargeLighting:
Peter MumfordSound:
Max PappenheimProduction Manager:
David PritchardStage Manager(s):
Alison Rankin,
Fiona Bardsley (deputy),
Bethany Jefferies (assistant)
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