
International Theatre Database
Category
Play
Country
United Kingdom
Run Dates
Dec 4, 2024 - Feb 1, 2025
Venue
Run Time
170 minutes
2024.12.04 ~ 2025.02.01
Hampstead Theatre
A E Housman is, as he understands it, finally dead. The noted Latin scholar and celebrated poet of A Shropshire Lad is being ferried across the Styx to Hades – but beyond the stygian gloom on the other side of the river he finds, to his surprise, the Oxford University of his youth. Alive with the academic debates that shaped his work and the friendships that shaped his life, this is the Oxford of Ruskin and Pater; a place still marked by the brilliance of a recently departed student called Wilde…
Tom Stoppard
Playwright/Author
Blanche McIntyre
Director
Max Pappenheim
Composer, Sound Designer
Morgan Large
Set Designer
Peter Mumford
Lighting Designer
Simon Russell Beale
Cast(A E Housman)
Dickie Beau
Cast(Oscar Wilde)
Stephen Boxer
Cast(Dr Jowett / Labouchère)
Jonnie Broadbent
Cast(Pater / Harris)
Seamus Dillane
Cast(Pollard)
Florence Dobson
Cast(Katharine Housman)
Peter Landi
Cast(Pattison / Postgate)
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Cast(Jackson)
Michael Marcus
Cast(Chamberlain / Ellis)
Dominic Rowan
Cast(Ruskin / Stead / Jerome K. Jerome)
Matthew Tennyson
Cast(Housman)