About the Show
See Oxford University through the eyes of renowned poet A E Housman – Olivier, BAFTA, and Tony award-winning actor Simon Russell Beale – in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. Housman is, as he understands it, finally dead. The noted Latin scholar and celebrated poet of A Shropshire Lad is being ferried across the Styx to Hades – but beyond the stygian gloom on the other side of the river he finds, to his surprise, the Oxford University of his youth. Alive with the academic debates that shaped his work and the friendships that shaped his life, this is the Oxford of Ruskin and Pater; a place still marked by the brilliance of a recently departed student called Wilde…
Cast
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
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