Henry VIII returns to the Globe!!
Excerpt from BBC:
“Henry VIII, which opens in May, is part of the theatre’s 2010 Kings and Rogues season.
Shakespeare’s masterpieces Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 will also be staged, while Lucy Bailey’s production of Macbeth will star Elliot Cowan, who recently appeared in the Donmar’s award-winning A Streetcar Named Desire.
The 2010 season will also see two new plays performed for the first time.
Bedlam, by Nell Leyshon, is a fictional account of the oldest psychiatric hospital in Western Europe and is inspired by the gin epidemic of the 18th Century.
Asked about being the first known woman to stage a play at the Globe, Ms Leyshon said: “I wanted to prove that women can do big stories. It’s been said too often that women can’t.”
Other new works will include Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton, which dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII’s second wife as a “sexual predator and rogue Queen”.
Wahoo! Im going to see Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn at the Globe in Aug, can’t wait!!!