Details

Rowland Lacy loves Rose Oatley but it's not going to work out. An aristocrat and a middle class girl aren't supposed to marry, not least because Rowland is a very bad boy and her parents really don't approve. When his father sends him to war to reform his ways, Rowland must take drastic action to avoid any chance of unnecessary personal injury and secretly pursue his love. He goes from riches to rags. Losing himself among the craftsmen of London he assumes the guise of a Dutch shoemaker (he learnt Dutch on his gap year of course) at the shop of the larger-than-life Simon Eyre and his wife Margery who are decidedly on their way from rags to riches. First performed at the Rose Theatre, July 1599.

Cast/Performers

David Troughton (Simon Eyre), Ben Allen (Askew), Ross Armstron (Warner), Daniel Boyd (Ralph Damport), Vincent Carmichael (Earl of Lincoln), Laura Cubitt (Seamstress), Hedydd Dylan (Jane Damport), Sandy Foster (Sybil), William Gaminara (Sir Roger Oatley), Michael Grady-Hall (Lovell), Michael Hodgson (Hodge), Jack Holden (The King), Andrew Langtree (Dodger), Joel MacCormack (Firk), Tom McCall (Skipper), Josh O?Connor (Rowland Lacy), Vivien Parry (Margery Eyre), Thomasin Rand (Rose Oatley), David Troughton (Simon Eyre), Jamie Wilkes (Hammon)

Creatives/Company

Author: Thomas Dekker
Producer: Royal Shakespeare Company
Director(s): Phillip Breen, Ayse Tashkiran (movement)
Design: Max Jones
Lighting: Tina MacHugh
Music: Jason Carr
Sound: Andrea J Cox