TAMBURLAINE

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Run Dates

2018.08.16 ~ 2018.12.02

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About the show

Christopher Marlowe's two-part play was turned into a three-hour epic for the Swan Theatre. A portrait of absolute power at its most charismatic and violent, Tamburlaine was one of the first big hits of the English stage. Tamburlaine is a poor shepherd who rises to power to live out his blood-soaked fantasy of conquering the world. His extravagant savagery shows what horror can result when unlimited political libido is let loose upon the world.

Details

CAST Salman Akhtar - Magnetes/Capolin/Amyras Sagar I M Arya - Bajazeth/Trebizon Raj Bajaj - Ceneus/Argier/Calyphas Shamia Chalabi - Persian Courtier/Natolian Messenger James Clyde - Menaphon/Morocco/Jerusalem Anton Cross - Celebinus/Persian Soldier Ralph Davis - Agydas/Arabia/Orcanes Ross Green - Ortygius/Frederick/Tunis/Captain Mark Hadfield - Mycetes/Soldan/Almeda/Amasia Zainab Hasan - Anippe/Olympia Naveed Khan - Kasap Debbie Korley - Zabina/Syria Rosy McEwen - Zenocrate/Callapine Jude Owusu - Tamburlaine Sam Pay - Mycetes' Spy/Persian Soldier Riad Richie - Usumcasane David Rubin - Techelles Vivienne Smith - Persian Courtier/Ebea/First Virgin David Sturzaker - Cosroe/Fez/Sigismund Yasmin Taheri - Persian Courtier/Second Virgin James Tucker - Meander/Basso/Baldwin/Perdicas Edmund Wiseman – Theridamas CREATIVE TEAM Playwright – Christopher Marlowe Director - Michael Boyd Designer - Tom Piper Lighting - Colin Grenfell Music - James Jones Sound - Claire Windsor Movement - Liz Ranken Fights - Terry King production photo Ellie Kurttz © RSC

Where it's been performed

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Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Stratford

United Kingdom

Stratford

United Kingdom

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