Gravesend and District
Registered Charity: 1112523egistered
PERFORMANCES - 4th, 5th, 6th April 2024
Director - Dan Pike
Production Manager - Kay Banfield
Cast
Will - Ian Phillips
Viola - Rhiannon Williams- Pike
Marlow - Madeline Proom
Wessex - Jim Robinson
Nurse - Evelyn Craven
Robert DL - Jane Fenlon
Queen - Liz Brown
Webster - Max Heasman
Ned - Ben Wells
Fennyman - Scott Terry
Henslowe - Bill Clynshaw
Ralph - Keith Henderson
Burbage - David Banfield
Tilney - Partrick Carty
Freeze & Boatman - Zoe Blowers
Nol/Valentine - Michael Smith
Wabash - Daniel Pike
Kate/ensemble - Lynne Hunt
Molly/ensemble - Lynne Murphy
Ensemble - Tracy Jarvis, George Morris, Noah Stuart & Nick Bull
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Based on the 1998 Academy Award Winning film it is a love story about struggling young playwright Will Shakespeare and a feisty, free-thinking young noblewoman who helps him overcome his writer's block and becomes his muse. And it's a love letter to the stage itself – bursting with humour, wonderful characters and theatrical allusions.
Viola de Lesseps is Will’s greatest admirer and will stop at nothing – including breaking the law and dressing as a boy actor – to appear in his next play. Against a bustling background of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming and backstage theatrics, Will’s love for Viola quickly blossoms, inspiring him to write his greatest romantic masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet.
Funny and moving in equal measures, this stage version of Shakespeare in Love was acclaimed as "riotously enjoyable" and a show that "makes you feel grateful to be alive" when it premiered in London in 2014.
