Cymbeline

by William Shakespeare
directed by Stephen Oliver

This is an opportunity for audiences to discover the extraordinary charms of Shakespeare's penultimate play, which deserves to be far better known than it is. The world of Cymbeline is that of fairy-tale, ancient legend, and love tested almost to breaking-point. Cymbeline, King of Britain, furious that his daughter Imogen should have married against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. In exile in Italy, this vulnerable husband makes a foolish wager on the fidelity of his far-distant wife. What follows is a gripping and moving tale of temptation, deceit, forgiveness and reconciliation, set against a backdrop of war between Britain and Rome, and written in Shakespeare's late style - that is, highly charged and compressed verse, shot-through with dazzling images and haunting poetry. The supernatural plays an important part, as does the horrific and the barely [but entertainingly] credible!

Saturday 24th to Saturday 31st October 2009
Evenings at 7.45p.m.
except
Sunday 25th October at 4p.m.
also
Matinee at 3p.m. on Saturday 31st October •Wednesday 28th October - No Performance

Other past productions

1. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
2. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
3. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
4. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
   adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
5. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
6. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
7. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
8. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
9. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
10. King John - William Shakespeare
11. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
12. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
13. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
14. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
15. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
16. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
17. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
18. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
19. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
20. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
21. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
22. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
23. Iron - Rona Munro
24. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
25. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
26. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
27. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
28. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
29. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
30. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
31. Harvey - Mary Chase
32. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
33. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
34. Henry V - William Shakespeare
35. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
36. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
37. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
38. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
39. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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