We are pleased to announce that SADC will be back at the Adrian Mann theatre in the autumn with Howard Brenton’s intriguing play, Anne Boleyn, which was written specially for the Globe Theatre in 2010. The play will be directed by Peter Bramwell who is making his directing debut with SADC, but who has considerable experience as a director, including The 39 Steps for CODA.
The play is a rather different take on the life of Anne Boleyn, the most notorious of Henry VIII’s wives. Anne narrates the play as her ghost, but the present she is haunting is the early part of James I’s reign as, fresh from Scotland where they do things very differently, he discovers more about those who came before him – Elizabeth I and, in particular, her mother Anne Boleyn. The play then tells the story of how Anne pursued the most dangerous man in the kingdom, and the most dangerous ideas of her day.
This promises to be a real delight for both the audiences and actors alike.