The Secret Theatre

T04133412

Archive :: production:T04133412, play:S1769555694, venue:V165

Production details

Espionage, double-crossing and blackmail come to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in this new spy thriller with powerful contemporary echoes. Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham oversees a vast surveillance network from the heart of Elizabeth I's court. As the nation's relationship with Europe deteriorates and civil unrest grows, Walsingham adopts ever more extreme tactics to keep his queen and country safe. But does he risk losing control of the apparatus he has created and destroying the lives of those closest to him? And can such safety ever be achieved? Sam Wanamaker

Special Performances

6 Dec 17 Relaxed
12 Dec 17 Captioned
16 Dec 17 Audio Described

Performance

Venue	Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
	Other spaces: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Inigo Jones, Globe Education Centre Theatre (Park Street)
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	16th November 2017
Opened	22nd November 2017
To	16th December 2017
When	19:30. Sun Nov 19 18:30. Nov 22, 24 Mats 14:00
What is currently on at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (V165)

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Author	Anders Lustgarten
Director	Matthew Dunster
Design	Jon Bausor
Director	Isabel Marr (assistant)
Choreographer	Charlotte Broom
Music	Alexander Balanescu
Lighting	Malcolm Rippeth
Costume	Laura Hunt
Director	Rachel Bown-Williams (fight director)
Director	Ruth Cooper-Brown (fight director)
Performer	Tara Fitzgerald (Elizabeth)
Performer	Edmund Kingsley (Robert Pooley)
Performer	Cassie Layton (Frances Walsingham / Mary of Scots)
Performer	Sam Marks (Sir Philip Sideny / Robert Southwell / Adam)
Performer	Aidan McArdle (Sir Francis Walsingham)
Performer	David Partridge (Anthony Babington / Miles / Howard)
Performer	Abraham Popoola (John Ballard / Tom / Topcliffe / Doctor)
Performer	Ian Redford (Sir William Cecil / Palmer)
Performer	Colin Ryan (Phelippes / Davy)

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