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Mike Poulton

MIKE POULTON   

Nationality:   British    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  

Mike Poulton began writing for the theatre in 1995. His first two productions were staged the following year by the Chichester Festival Theatre: Uncle Vanya with Derek Jacobi, and Fortune's Fool with Alan Bates. Since then, productions have included St Erkenwald at the RSC, Ghosts with Nichola McAuliffe at the Theatre Royal Plymouth, The Dance of Death and an adaptation of Euripides' Ion at the Mercuiy Theatre Coichester, all directed by David Hunt; as well as The Three Sisters at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, directed by Bill Bryden, Uncle Vanya on Broadway with Derek Jacobi, Roger Rees and Laura Lrnney, Don Carlos at the Sheffield Crucible, and in the West End also with Derek Jacobi, and The Canterbuiy Tales for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2001 his adaptation of the York Mystery Plays, directed by Gregory Doran, was performed for the first time in York Minster. In 2003 his Fortune's Fool, directed by Arthur Penn on Broadway, received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play, and went on to win seven major awards including the Tony for Best Actor for Alan Bates, and the Tony for Best Featured Actor for Frank Langella. Other commissions include two plays based on Mallory's Morte D'Arthur for the RSC, a new version of Schiller's Mary Stuart for Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and a new version of Gilgamesh.

Plays by Mike Poulton

MIKE POULTON

Bacchae, The

1st Produced:

Manchester: Royal Exchange Theatre, St Anns Square, Manchester, M2 7DH >>>

10 Nov 2010

Company:

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

When a new god - the god of the life force, the god of sensuality, wine and the dance, the god that other religions fear - arrives in a buttoned-down world, he finds a leader who no longer believes in a power higher than himself, who will do whatever it takes to preserve the status quo. But this society is a ticking time bomb, revolution is in the air and the people are desperate for change. A band of sisters are ready to explode and destroy everyone and everything that gets in their way in Mike Poulton's all-new version of this DARK and LIBERATING play, co-conceived with choreographer Mark Bruce and director Braham Murray.

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MIKE POULTON

Canterbury Tales, The

1st Produced:

Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon >>>

2005

Company:

RSC

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London (2005) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1854598837

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

15

Female

5

Parts other:

doubling

Notes:

adapted from Chaucer

Canterbury Tales, The

"Befell that in that season on that day/ In Southwark at The Tabard - as I lay/ Ready to wenden on my pilgrimage/ To Canterb'ry with full devout courage -/ At night was come into that hostelry/ Well nine-and-twenty in a company/ Of sundry folk, by aventure yfall/ In fellowship - And pilgrims were they all/ That toward Canterb'ry would ride -."

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MIKE POULTON

Chain Play - Production II

1st Produced:

Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, Islington, London N1 1TA >>>

29 Feb 2008

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

5

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

written by Neil LaBute, Abi Morgan, Mike Poulton, Tanya Ronder

Synopsis:

Written over a three month period, each writer is given two weeks to add a scene of between ten and fifteen minutes before passing the script onto the next writer. Performed for one night only. A fundraising event.

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MIKE POULTON

Cherry Orchard, The

1st Produced:

Mold: Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Wales, EUR >>>

2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 2008

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

8

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

Synopsis:

For Madame Ranevskaya, her cherry orchard is more than just land; it is her childhood, her memories and her life. Returning for the first time since her young son drowned there, she must come to terms with the fact that in order to free her family of debt the cherry orchard must be sold, the trees must be cleared and she and her family must prepare for life beyond the orchard. This touching and often hilarious play exercises the perfect balance of comedy and tragedy, through the characters, relationships and observations of society

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MIKE POULTON

Dance Of Death

1st Produced:

Mercury Theatre, Colchester, UK >>>

2001

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - August Strindberg

Synopsis:

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MIKE POULTON

Don Carlos

1st Produced:

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield >>>

2004

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

11

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

Don Carlos

Don Carlos is passionately in love with Elizabeth, a French princess. Carlos' tyrannical father, King Philip II, decides to marry Elizabeth himself. The young prince's hatred of his father knows no bounds. He enlists his friend, the Marquis of Posa, to act as go-between, but Posa decides to convert Carlos and Elizabeth's passion into a full-scale rebellion against Philip's oppressive regime.

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MIKE POULTON

Father, The

1st Produced:

Festival Theatre, Chichester, UK, EUR >>>

2006

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London (2011) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1854599414

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

5

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - August Strindberg

Father, The

Strindberg's gripping psychological drama about the battle of the sexes, in a spiky new version by Mike Poulton. The Father is about a marriage wrecked by the parents' need to claim exclusive rights to their daughter's love, and to determine her future. By turns comic and deeply tragic, it shows an affable, scholarly father fall victim to a once loving wife who will stop at nothing to do what she thinks is right for her child. The only possible outcome is a grim, yet thrilling fight to the death in circumstances of almost unbearable tension.

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MIKE POULTON

Fortune's Fool

1st Produced:

Minerva Theatre, Chichester, UK >>>

1996

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London (acting edition) - click here to order >>>, 2002

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#28389

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

10

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Ivan Turgenev (Alien Bread)

Synopsis:

This new, acclaimed, adaptation of Turgenev's classic comedy explores the delicious paradox of humour and despair to be found in the casual infliction of cruelty. The homecoming of Olga Petrovna and her husband, Yeletsky, to her deceased parents' country manor should be a happy affair for the house's resident penniless gentleman, Kuzovkin. His friend Ivanov is less optimistic, fearing for Kuzovkin's fate. All begins well but is cut short by the arrival of a rich neighbour, Tropatchov, whose favourite pastime is humiliating all he considers inferior. In no time the "gentlemen" are plying Kuzovkin with drink, exposing his pathetic history layer by layer. When Kuzovkin breaks in a drunken rage, he reveals a family secret that is set to challenge their very identity. In a moving denouement Kuzovkin wins back what has been his all along but cannot reclaim his honour.

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MIKE POULTON

Ghosts

1st Produced:

Theatre Royal, Plymouth, UK >>>

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis:

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MIKE POULTON

Hedda Gabler

1st Produced:

Leeds, WYP Quarry

2006

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

3

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis:

The general's daughter marries a mediocre academic and, bored by the banalaties of bourgeois life, amuses herself by manipulating the people around her.

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MIKE POULTON

Il Sindico Del Rione Sanita (The Syndicate)

1st Produced:

Chichester: Minerva Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6AP >>>

21 Jul 2011

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo

Synopsis:

Honest young Antonio Barracano stabs a brutal night-watchman to death. With the help of a 'Godfather' he is smuggled out of Naples to hide in New York. Convicted of the murder in his absence but safe overseas, he quickly acquires wealth and a reputation for ruthlessness. Returning to Naples, he uses his new status to quash his conviction and is soon feared but respected throughout the city, making it his life's work to provide a form of rough justice for the criminals of Naples who have no other access to law. He rules the Naples underbelly with a rod of iron but when a respectable but poor young man decides to murder his father and comes to Don Antonio for advice, the Neapolitan 'Godfather' emerges from the shadows to make the young man's father an offer he can't refuse.

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MIKE POULTON

Ion

1st Produced:

Mercury Theatre, Colchester, UK >>>

2004

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

6

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Euripides

Synopsis:

concerns the protracted reunion of Creusa, the Queen of Athens, and her abandoned son, a humble sweeper-up at Delphi.

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MIKE POULTON

Judgement Day

1st Produced:

The Print Room, 34 Hereford Road, London W2 5AJ >>>

16 Nov 2011

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London (2012) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1848422414

Music:

-

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Genre:

adaptation

Parts:

Male

4

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Judgement Day

Adapted from When We Dead Awaken, the last play Ibsen wrote before his death. First staged in 1899, it is rarely performed, yet is one of Ibsen's most extraordinary and deeply personal works. Whilst holidaying with his young wife, the sculptor Rubek encounters his muse: a woman that he loved and left a lifetime ago. Over a series of heated encounters, the entire scroll of Rubek's life is unrolled in Ibsen's final  and most autobiographical  exploration of what it means to love and be loved. Set within a mythical Nordic landscape, the play offers an explicit and merciless portrait of Ibsen as an ageing artist: restless with his art, his homeland and his married life.

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MIKE POULTON

Lady From The Sea, The

1st Produced:

Birmingham: Rep, UK, EUR >>>

2008

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis:

juxtaposes the earthly with the supernatural, practicality with desire, duty with fre. Its heroine, Ellida Wangel, yearning for the open sea but confined to her marital home in a small holiday town beside a fjord is drowning on dry land.

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MIKE POULTON

Luise Miller

1st Produced:

Donmar Warehouse, London, UK >>>

08 Jun 2011

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London (2011) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1848421479

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

7

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

Luise Miller

Adapted from Schiller's 1784 play Kabale und Liebe, a masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal. Born into ancient nobility and son of the most powerful statesman in the land, Ferdinand is willing to forsake his fortune for the love of Luise, daughter of a humble musician. But in a world governed by deception and greed, where power is everything, their future happiness and liberty are beyond their control

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MIKE POULTON

Mary Stuart

1st Produced:

Mold: Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Wales, EUR >>>

07 May 2009

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London (2009) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

9781408199930

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

8

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller. Mary Stuart, written in 1800

Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart tells the story of the personal struggle between two extraordinary women - one French, one English - both captive to the demands of sovereignty and both caught in a tumult of political and religious intrigue. Which of them is the rightful Queen of England  Mary Stuart or Elizabeth Tudor?

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MIKE POULTON

Morte D'Arthur

1st Produced:

Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, EUR >>>

11 Jun 2010

Company:

Royal Shakespeare Company

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London (2010) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1848420953

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

large cast

Notes:

By Sir Thomas Malory. Published in London by Caxton in 1485, fourteen years after its author's unprepossessing death as prisoner in Newgate Prison

Morte D'Arthur

Bringing the familiar and not-so-familiar tales of Britain's first great epic to spectacular life, this new adaptation traces Arthur's rise and fall, from the sword in the stone and the foundation of the Round Table to the Holy Grail and the adultery of Launcelot and Guenever. See brave knights, damsels in distress and fiery dragons as The Courtyard Theatre plays host to the story of the 'once and future King'.
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MIKE POULTON

Myrmidons

1st Produced:

Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin

2006

Company:

Oroborus Theatre

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

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MIKE POULTON

Rosmersholm

1st Produced:

Almeida Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2008

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2008

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1854595966

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

4

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Rosmersholm

A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, considered by many to be Ibsen's dramatic masterpiece. Johannes Rosmer has resigned as parish priest following the suicide of his wife. But his increasingly liberal ideas make him an object of suspicion to the local worthies, who also disapprove of the presence in his house of a much younger woman, Rebecca West, formerly his wife's companion. As their relationship deepens and their isolation builds, the increasing moral pressures they face force them inexorably towards their fate. . .

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MIKE POULTON

Seagull, The

1st Produced:

Mercury Theatre, Colchester, UK >>>

2005

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 2005

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#53282

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

8

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

Synopsis:

no minor characters here - a new balance to the play

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MIKE POULTON

St Erkenwald

1st Produced:

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#46453

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n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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MIKE POULTON

Syndicate, The

1st Produced:

Chichester: Minerva Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6AP >>>

21 Jul 2011

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London (2011) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1408156902

Music:

-

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#130904

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Genre:

translation

Parts:

Male

11

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo

Syndicate, The

Smuggled out of Naples in his youth after stabbing a brutal night-watchman to death, Antonio Barracano returned home in the 1960s as a wealthy man. He used his newfound status to quash his murder conviction, and was soon feared but respected throughout the city. Don Antonio has made it his life's work to bring rough justice to the criminals of Naples who otherwise have no fear of the law. He rules the city's underbelly with a rod of iron. The play begins when a respectable but poor young man who has resolved to murder his father comes to Don Antonio for advice. The Neapolitan Godfather' emerges from the shadows to make the young man's father an offer he can't refuse. The comedy grows blacker as respectable' Naples collides with its criminal underworld. A dark comedy of pathos and farce by one of Italy's pre-eminent dramatists of the twentieth century.

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MIKE POULTON

Three Sisters

1st Produced:

Mercury Theatre, Colchester, UK >>>

2003

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 2006

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

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#28390

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Genre:

Translation

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Uncle Vanya

1st Produced:

Minerva Theatre, Chichester, UK >>>

1996

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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-

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#46452

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Genre:

Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Wallenstein

1st Produced:

Chichester: Festival MinervaTheatre, England, EUR >>>

2009

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

9781848420519

Music:

-

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#95332

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Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

Wallenstein

Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, Supreme Commander of the Habsburg armies, champion and saviour of the Holy Roman Empire, stands undefeated in a seemingly endless war of religion. A victim of his own military success, Wallenstein believes he is the only commander who can bring peace to the Empire. In the field, Wallenstein inspires fanatical loyalty in his troops. At court, politicians, jealous of his victories, howl for his dismissal and plot against his life. Four wintry days of terrible events, conspiracy, divided loyalty and betrayal culminate in one night of violent score settling. Wallenstein's struggle is played out on a vast European stage, but the heart of the tragedy is private and domestic: wives, children, lovers and friends must bear the heaviest burden of suffering. Schiller's skill in balancing the epic with the human make him arguably Europe's greatest playwright.

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York Millennium Mysteries

1st Produced:

York Minster

2000

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#28391

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Genre:

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Parts:

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-

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

The Devil in the pulpit at York Minster? The word "bollocks" intoned with unmistakable clarityin the nave? There are~ you'd have thought, safer places in which to tempt fate. The last time the Almighty allegedly showed his hand as a reviewer (over an ecclesiastical appointment up north), it left this particular cathedral with a smoking transept and a hefty restoration bill. But if the divine Number One String isn't smitten with Gregory Dorans spectacular staging of the York Mystery Plays, He certainly managed to keep His displeasure to Himself during the opening performances. This community event, which involves hundreds of local people, comes round every four years. Mirroring the way in which God humbled himself by becoming man, one professional actor traditionally slums itas Jesus among the hoards of amateurs.
Paul Taylor, Independant

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