Details

Rose Rage is a new look at the Henry VI plays by William Shakespeare. Rose Rage condenses Shakespeare's trilogy into two parts, which can be seen either individually or as a double event. This cut version, performed by an all-male cast, is extremely exciting and accessible to modern audiences, so if you think Shakespeare isn't your thing...think again. Leaving only an infant son as his heir, the legendary King Henry V is barely cold in his grave before the English nobility are squabbling over power and control. Keen to claim the English crown as his own, Richard of York sets the people's hero Jack Cade to raising a rebellion, and the country is thrown into turmoil. At the battle of St Albans two mighty forces meet and begin a desperate contest for the throne.

Cast/Performers

Tony Bell, Richard Clothier, Emilio Doorgasingh, Matthew Flynn, Robert Hands, Vincent Leigh, Jonathan McGuiness, Christian Myles, Simon Scardifield, Tim Treloar, Jules Werner, Guy Williams

Creatives/Company

Company: Watermill
Adapted by(s): Edward Hall, Roger Warren
Director: Edward Hall
Design: Michael Pavelka
Lighting: Ben Ormerod