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VenueFestival Theatre
Also: Studio
TownEdinburgh
CountyEdinburgh
From7th August 2014
Opened10th August 2014
To21st August 2014
WhenAug 7, 10, 16, 17, 13, 21 at 19:30. Aug 20 at 16:00
PricesFrom £15.00. To £35.00.
Festival Theatre (V600)
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  • Date of change: 20 Jan 14 - T1813135520

James II: Day of the Innocents

Work:: James II: Day of the Innocents (S92073339)

In the second of Rona Munro's dynastical trilogy, innocent games merge with murderous intent in a violent royal playground of shifting realities and paranoia. An eight year old boy is crowned King of Scots. Soon James II is the prize in a vicious game between the country's most powerful families, for whoever has the person of the boy king, controls the state. Seen through a child's eyes, the Scottish court is a world of monsters with sharp teeth and long knives. Growing up alone, abandoned by his mother and separated from his sisters, James II is little better than a puppet. There is only one relationship he can trust, his growing friendship with another lonely boy, William, the future Earl of Douglas. The two boys cling together as they try to survive the murder and mayhem that surrounds them. But the independence and power of young adulthood brings James into an even more threatening world. He has to fight the feuding nobles who still want to control him, he has to make brutal choices about the people he loves best, he has to struggle to keep his tenuous grip on the security of the crown and on his sanity....while the nightmares and demons of his childhood rise up again with new and murderous intent.
Author Rona Munro

Production:: (T1813135520)

Presented byNational Theatre of Scotland
Presented byEdinburgh International Festival
Presented byNational Theatre of Great Britain
Director Laurie Sansom
Design Jon Bausor
Lighting Philip Gladwell
Sound Christopher Shutt
Director Neil Bettles (movement)
Director Mervyn Millar (puppet)
Director Amanda Gaughan (associate director)
Performer Cameron Barnes
Performer Daniel Cahill
Performer Ali Craig
Performer Blythe Duff
Performer Nick Elliott
Performer Peter Forbes
Performer Andrew Fraser
Performer Sarah Higgins
Performer Stephanie Hyam
Performer Gordon Kennedy
Performer Aly Macrae
Performer David Mara
Performer Beth Marshall
Performer Rona Morison
Performer Andrew Rothney
Performer Mark Rowley
Performer Fiona Wood

Listing:: L0467633758

Edinburgh International Festival



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