Arden of Faversham
Past productions
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Clwyd Theatr, Cymru, Mold (now Theatr Clwyd)
- Classics on a Shoestring, Old Red Lion Theatre, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Royal Shakespeare Company, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon
- Royal Shakespeare Company, The Roundhouse, London
- Drama Department, Bristol University
A play by Anonymous
Arden of Faversham, an Elizabethan drama by an anonymous author, is based on a true story in which desire, envy and greed inexorably lead to death.
The play is an early example of Elizabethan tragic-comedy. Blackly funny, it is not so much ‘whodunnit’ but ‘how’ and ‘when’…