CYMBELINE

About the show

Gillian Bevan was the first woman to play Cymbeline at the RSC. The show played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the Barbican, during our summer 2016 season. Cymbeline, played by Gillian Bevan, is Queen of a divided Britain. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart in secret, a furious Cymbeline banishes her new husband. Distracted by this marriage, Cymbeline is blind to a powerful figure behind the throne who is plotting to seize power. In exile, Innogen’s husband is tricked into believing she has been unfaithful and begins a scheme to have her murdered. Innogen runs away in disguise on a journey which will eventually reconcile the lovers and reunite Cymbeline with a lost heir.