Cast and credits for the 1998 season.

Once again the Red Rose and White Rose companies have been formed. The first two plays of the season are "As You Like It" staged by the Red company, and "The Merchant of Venice" staged by the White company. Two more plays; The Honest Whore and A Mad World, My Masters will follow later in the season.

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare.

Cast

Jonathan Bond - Oliver de Boys

Jonathan Cecil - Corin / Le Beau / Sir Oliver Martext

Tonia Chauvet - Celia

Belinda Davidson - Phebe

Michael Fenner - First Lord; of the banished Duke / Lord; of Duke Frederick's court

David Fielder - Touchstone; a fool

Leader Hawkins - Old Adam / Hymen

Martin Herdman - 2nd Lord; of the banished Duke / Charles / William

Paul Hilton - Orlando de Boys

Anastasia Hille - Rosalind

Wil Johnson - Amiens / Lord; of Duke Frederick's court / Jaques de Boys

John McEnery - Jaques; of the banished Duke's court

Guy Moore - Denis / Silvius

David Rintoul - Duke Frederick / Duke Senior

Maggie Wells - Audrey

Directed by Lucy Bailey

Music composed by Roderick Skeaping

Musicians

Matthew Fox - Percussion and Dulcimer

William Lyons - Wind and Bagpipes

Keith McGowan - Wind and Bagpipes

Nick Perry - Wind and Bagpipes

Lucie Skeaping - Voice and Strings

Roderick Skeaping - Voice and Strings

Keith Thompson - Wind and Bagpipes

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare.

Cast

Lilo Baur - Jessica

Neil D-Souza - Solario

Andrew French - Gratiano

Norbert Kentrup - Shylock

Marcello Magni - Launcelot Gobbo

Nicholas Monu - Duke of Venice / Prince of Morocco

Morris Perry - Prince of Aragon / Leonardo

Kathryn Pogson - Portia

Sonia Ritter - Nerissa

Mark Rylance - Bassanio

Jack Shepherd - Antonio

Clarence Smith - Lorenzo

Ralph Watson - Old Gobbo / Tubal

Benedict Wong - Solanio

Robert Woods - Balthazar / Stephano

Directed by Richard Olivier

Music composed by Claire van Kampen

Musicians

Tom Hammond - Sackbut

Mark Hoskins - Cornett

Michael Laird - Cornett

Tom Lees - Sackbut

Keith McGowen - Wind

Kazimierz Michalak - Flute

Abigail Newman - Sackbut

Paul Sharp - Cornett

Belinda Sykes - Wind

Emily White - Sackbut

Adrian Woodward - Cornett

The Honest Whore

by Thomas Dekkar and Thomas Middleton.

Coming soon ...

A Mad World, My Masters

by Thomas Middleton.

Coming soon ...

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This page first appeared in May 1998.

Last update by R. Thomson - 27th May 1998.

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