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

“The end crowns all, and that old common arbitrator, time, will one day end it”Troilus & Cressida, Act iv, Sc.5