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KING JOHN

KING JOHN

Category

Play

Country

United Kingdom

Run Dates

Jul 27 - Oct 10, 2006

Venue

Run Time

170 minutes

Run Dates

2006.07.27 ~ 2006.10.10

RSC

World Premiere

About the show

Presented as part of The Complete Works Festival, Rourke’s production was fresh, clear and, at times, frightening. She restored the pageantry to aid the storytelling and this was seen to great effect in the brightly-coloured medieval costumes that distinguished the different armies.

KING JOHN Info

Details

CAST Jamie Ballard – The Count Melun Steven Beard – Chatillon / Executioner Amy Brown – Isabella of Angouleme Simon Bubb – Robert Faulconbridge / English Soldier / Monk Morven Christie – Blanche Sam Cox – Hubert Sorcha Cusack – Queen Eleanor Christopher Davies – Austrian Soldier / Monk / Peter of Pomfret Nicholas Day – King Philip of France Rupert Evans – Lewis the Dauphin David Fielder – Cardinal Pandulph Curtis Flowers – English Herald Shane Frater – French Soldier / Monk / Executioner Tamsin Grieg – Constance John Heffernan – James Gurney / Austrian Soldier / Monk Eliza Hunt – Lady Faluconbridge Tanner Leon – Archduke of Austria Geoffrey Lumb – French Herald / French Messenger Richard McCabe – King John Joseph Millson – Philip Faulconbridge Sam O’Mahony-Adams – Soldier in the English Court / English Soldier / English Messenger Adam Rayner – Earl of Essex Patrick Robinson – Earl of Salisbury Jonny Weir – Earl of Pembroke Ralph Davis – Arthur Jamie Thomas – Arthur Charles Hamblett – Prince Henry James Parris – Prince Henry CREATIVE TEAM Playwright – William Shakespeare Director – Josie Rourke Designer – Peter McKintosh Light Designer – Neil Austin Sound Designer – Christopher Shutt Music – Jocelyn Pook Movement – Dominic Leclerc Fight Arranger – Terry King production photo Stewart Hemley © RSC

Where it's been performed

RSC

RSC

Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Stratford

United Kingdom

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