Henry VIII
Shakespeare’s Globe summer 2010: The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King’s first minister and the most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power in the land. Wolsey’s ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King’s romance with Ann Bullen, he brings gigantic ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.
Famous in its own day as Shakespeare’s most sumptuous and spectacular play, Henry VIII is a gorgeous pageant of masques and royal ceremony; a blaze of fireworks, cannonfire, red satin and cloth-of-gold. But within the passages of grandeur works the mind of the mature Shakespeare: psychological and political insight, language of great depth and power and, in the figures of Wolsey and Katherine, two of his most vivid and memorable characters.
Dominic Rowan was recently in The Misanthrope in the West End, and previously played Touchstone in As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2009.
Cast & Crew
Cast
Unknown | Michael Bertenshaw |
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Unknown | Sam Cox |
Unknown | John Cummins |
Unknown | Ben Deery |
Unknown | Mary Doherty |
Unknown | John Dougall |
Unknown | Kate Duchene |
Unknown | Will Featherstone |
Unknown | Peter Hamilton Dyer |
Unknown | Anthony Howell |
Unknown | Colin Hurley |
Unknown | Amanda Lawrence |
Unknown | Miranda Raison |
Unknown | Dickon Tyrrell |
Unknown | Clive Wood |
Henry VIII | Dominic Rowan |
Crew | |
Composer | Nigel Hess |
Designer | Angela Davies |
Director | Mark Rosenblatt |
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