All's Well That Ends Well (Programme 2016)

Dates

• Friday, June 24, 2016, 20:00h
• Saturday, June 25, 2016, 15:00h
• Saturday, June 25, 2016, 20:00h

Description

Director: Andrew Hilton

Staging and Costumes: Max Johns

Sound Design: Elizabeth Purnell

Light Design: Matthew Graham

Starring: Ian Barritt, Christopher Bianchi, Alan Coveney, Paul Currier, Craig Fuller, Marc Geoffrey, Nicky Goldie,
Julia Hills, Joel Macey, Alan Mahon, Isabelle Marshall, Callum McIntyre, John Sandeman, Laurence Varda, Eleanor Yates

Duration: 2h 45 min incl. intermission

Prices: A

Language: english

Admission 45 minutes before the beginning of the performance

With great pleasure we announce the end of the 26th festival with the actual original performance of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, performed by the Shakespeare Company of Tobacco Factory Bristol, directed by Andrew Hilton.

Helena, the daughter of a bourgeois doctor, is hopelessly in love with the young Count Bertram in this dark comedy. The reputation of their healing art brings them before the dying King of France where she negotiates the promise that should she cure him, she will be able to pick and choose her own husband. Naturally she gets what she wants and Bertram must marry her against his will. But how will she get her husband to bed? An intrigue is soon conjured: she deceives him dressed as another in the dark- and becomes pregnant. Count Bertram finally accepts his role as a husband. All's well that ends well? Like in real life and, hopefully, at the Shakespeare Festival 2016.

German Premiere in English

Scene selection available in German