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. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
2. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
3. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
4. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
5. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
6. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
7. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
8. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
9. Iron - Rona Munro
10. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
11. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
12. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
13. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
14. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
15. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
16. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
17. Harvey - Mary Chase
18. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
19. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
20. Henry V - William Shakespeare
21. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
22. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
23. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
24. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
25. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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