VIVAT! VIVAT REGINA!

by Robert Bolt

Director - Michael Munn

Tuesday 29th September - Saturday 3rd October 2009

To follow his extraordinarily successful 'A Man for All Seasons', Robert Bolt wrote this magnificent drama of two Queens - Mary Stuart of Scotland, impetuous and passionate, turning the tide of history and the heads of male admirers, sacrificing power for love - and Elizabeth Tudor, sacrificing passion, love and family for the crown of England.

Surrounding these two women were men to love them, to plot against them, and to lead them toward their desyinies - one to rule; the other to die.

THE CAST

Mary - Clare Lawrance

Elizabeth - Anthea Halstead

Rizzio (Italian Musician & Mary's bit on the side!) - Mark Littlewood

Claud Nau (Mary's ever faithful French teacher) - Stephen Green

Cecil (Elizabeth's chief counsellor) - Richard Fawcett

Dudley (Elizabeth's dashing lover) - Kevin Roychowdhury

Morton (Scots Lord and chief conspirator against Mary) - Michael Harding

Ruthven (Scots Lord, Morton's closest ally) - Mark Saberton

Bothwell (Scots Lord, softened by his love for Mary) - Mark Jenner

Knox (a scene-chewing parson) - David Knight

Walsingham (Elizabeth's sceretary and advisor) - Geoff Banwell

De Quadra (Spanish Ambassador) - Peter Drew

Davison (young messenger from England) - Samuel Alexandra Cook

Darnley (a Tudor who marries Mary, thinking he will be King) - Daniel Smith

Brewer - Chris Lamb