Anne Boleyn
From: Friday, 8th July 2011
To: Sunday, 21 August 2011
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Synopsis
Hunting through an old chest, the newly crowned James I 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 – forever.
A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn leaps between generations to reveal the debt the outrageous but scholarly James owed to Anne when he shrewdly reconciled England’s religious factions by creating his common, ‘authorised’ Bible.
Howard Brenton's Whatsonstage.com Award-winning play Anne Boleyn returns to Shakespeare's Globe for just 22 performances, with Miranda Raison reprising her acclaimed performance as one of England’s most notorious queens.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 18 July 2011
Howard Brenton’s richly enjoyable epic won last year’s Whatsonstage.com Best New Play Award and fully deserves its revival at the Globe, where the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife and key figure in the Reformation, is unravelled with spring and verve.
John Dove’s production returns with most of the leading players reprising their roles, notably Miranda Raison as the headless Queen, teasing us with her bonce in a bloody bag and brandishing the Tyndale bible which was adapted by King James into his version.
Brenton brings Anne into fictional collision with James Garnon’s Eddie Izzard lookalike King James at the end – Garnon’s still remarkable performance is much modified, more subdued than last year – in a wonderful clinching scene of recognition and adieu.
His predecessor on the throne of England was Anne’s daughter, Elizabeth, so the play works as both an exposition of the cradle of...
Cast
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
Creative
Howard Brenton (Author)
Shakespeare's Globe (Producer)
John Dove (Director)
Michael Taylor (Design)
William Lyons (Music)
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