Elizabeth Rex / Timothy Findley with Paul Thompson.Elizabeth Rex / Timothy Findley with Paul Thompson.
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Auteur
Titre
Elizabeth Rex / Timothy Findley with Paul Thompson.
Description
140 pages ; 20 cm.
Sommaire
In the small hours of the night before Ash Wednesday, 1601, William Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men receive an unexpected visitor to their humble lodgings. Unable to rest, the Queen herself has come to keep vigil on the eve of the execution of her former lover, the Earl of Essex. Her arrival provokes the rapier-sharp wit and keen insight of Ned Lowenscroft, the company's brilliant performer of women's roles, and sparks the imagination of the Bard of Avon. In the course of the long night and their often turbulent exchanges, the actor, the queen, and the playwright will confront the roles they have played and the lives they have lived, wrestling with questions of identity, sexuality, and love, and asking: what makes a man a man, and a woman a woman?
Production
Produced by the Stratford Festival.
2 acts ; 11m, 4w, extras.
First public performance : Tom Patterson Theatre, on June 29, 2000, Stratford (Ontario).
Director : Martha Henry.
ISBN
9780006392538
Collaboration
Caractéristiques
Men
Cote
D F494eL 2003
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