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Edward II

on BBC Two England

by Christopher Marlowe
Prospect Theatre Company in the 1969 Edinburgh Festival production recorded at the Piccadilly Theatre, London
with Ian McKellen as King Edward
(Putting Elizabethan drama on the box: page 9)

Contributors

Author:
Christopher Marlowe
For Prospect Theatre Company - Fights arranged by:
Colin Fisher
For Prospect Theatre Company - Stage lighting:
John B. Read
For Prospect Theatre Company - Music:
Carl Davis
For Prospect Theatre Company - Settings and costumes:
Kenneth Rowell
For Prospect Theatre Company - Associate director:
Richard Marquand
For the BBC - Make-up:
Sandra Shepherd
For the BBC - Costumes:
Dinah Collin
For the BBC - Sound:
Chris Holcombe
For the BBC - Lighting:
Hubert Cartwright
For the BBC - Producer:
Mark Shivas
Directed for the theatre and television by:
Toby Robertson
King Edward:
Ian McKellen
Young Mortimer:
Timothy West
Queen Isabella:
Diane Fletcher
Piers Gaveston:
James Laurenson
Lightborn:
Robert Eddison
Earl of Warwick:
Paul Hardwick
Earl of Lancaster:
Trevor Martin
Old Spencer:
Andrew Crawford
Edmund of Kent:
Peter Bourne
Young Spencer:
David Calder
Robert Baldcock:
David Strong
Old Mortimer:
Michael Spice
Earl of Pembroke:
Stephen Greif
Earl of Arundel:
Colin Fisher
Earl of Leicester:
Richard Morant
Bishop of Coventry:
Michael Godfrey
Prince Edward:
Myles Reithermann
Niece to the King:
Lucy Fleming
Thomas Gurney:
Terence Wilton
Sir John Maltravers:
Paul Hardwick
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Robert Eddison
Sir John Hainault:
Michael Spice
Rice ap Howell:
Trevor Martin
Levune:
Richard Morant
Abbot of Neath:
Stephen Greif
A Mower:
Jeremy Nicholas
Soldiers and Attendants:
Nigel Crewe
Soldiers and Attendants:
Nicol Gordon
Soldiers and Attendants:
Nigel Havers
Soldiers and Attendants:
Michael Howarth
Soldiers and Attendants:
Jeremy Nicholas
Soldiers and Attendants:
Nicolas Olivier
Soldiers and Attendants:
William Smith
Soldiers and Attendants:
Christopher Whitehouse

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