Theatre
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- Artists
- Ed Viney, James Shapiro
The Bristol Shakespeare Festival return to the Stackpool Playhouse, Southville, with a world premiere of this new play written and directed by Ed Viney, an established Bristol director and assistant director at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
In the year 1599, William Shakespeare is in trouble. The competition’s got stiffer, his theatre’s been dismantled and everyone’s telling him what he should be writing.
But when you’re in trouble, the best way out is to get in a bit deeper.
Inspired by the best-selling book by James Shapiro, 1599 shows how a single year transformed Shakespeare’s fortunes; a year in which he wrote Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It and Hamlet … a year in which the theatre literally moved!
See the globe come to live on stage in the most fantastic, laugh-out-loud funny, illumination of Shakespeare and his plays you’re ever likely to see.
July 3-14, Tue-Sun 7.45pm plus Sat mat 2.30pm, £6-£15.99. Stackpool Playhouse, St Thomas Mar Thoma Church, Southville,
For more info, visit www.bristolshakespearefestival.org.uk
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