by Racine translated by John Edmunds
with Honor Blackman as Agrippina, Michael Cochrane as Nero, David Horovitch as Britannicus, Rosalind Shanks as Junia, Carleton Hobbs as Burrhus, Pauline Letts as Albina and Richard Hurndall as Narcissus

The play is set in an antechamber to Nero's apartments. Agrippina has spent her life plotting and manoeuvring so that she can be the power behind the throne. Suddenly Nero begins to assert himself to prove that he is Caesar.
The plays sees the end of his benevolent reign and the beginning of a reign of terror.