Imagined scenes from a documentary life by John Wilders and John Powell with music directed by Philip Astle and Paul Williamson
Martin Jarvis plays William Shakespeare
"His mind and heart went together: and what he thought he uttered..." (John Heminge and Henry Condell, First Folio, 1623)
with a Cry of Players:
Douglas Blackwell as James Burbage, Michael Williams as Richard Burbage, his son, John Hollis as Richard Tarleton and Hugh Dickson, Steve Hodson and Crawford Logan with David March as John Shakespeare, William's father, David Brierley as Gilbert, his younger brother, Frances Jeater as Anne, his wife, Rosalind Adams as Susanna, his daughter and J. Lidstone as William, the boy, Leonard Fenton as John Bretchgirdle, the minister, Timothy Bateson as Thomas Jenkins, the schoolmaster, John Rye as Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton and Mary Wimbush as Queen Elizabeth I.
Music played and sung by Philip Astle and Paul Williamson with their Noyse of Musitians and Evelyn Tubb (soprano) John Potter (tenor) Graham Jeffery (treble)
(Repeated on 2 May)