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Dateline: 5th March, 2010
Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey and the Royal Shakespeare Company are joining forces for a unique collaboration this Spring: Shakespeare’s Kings and Westminster Abbey featuring actors from the award-winning RSC Histories Ensemble.
Five special evenings of performance, music and interpretation staged in Westminster Abbey will offer audiences a new perspective on Shakespeare’s History Plays and the lives of some of the kings depicted within them: Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Richard III and Henry VII.
Excerpts from the History Plays will be performed by actors from the RSC Histories Ensemble interwoven with period music sung by The Lay Vicars of The Choir of Westminster Abbey. The narrator for the evenings will be Professor Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey, who will focus on the many links between the Abbey and the History Plays. Audiences will be seated in the historic setting of the coronation ‘theatre’- the place in Westminster Abbey where kings and queens of England have been crowned since 1066 and just metres away from the tombs of four kings: Edward III, Richard II, Henry V and Henry VII.
Professor Nicholas Sagovsky said, “It is very exciting that Shakespeare’s words will be performed in the place where these kings were crowned, accompanied by music they might well have heard in their time.” Booking informationTuesday evenings in Westminster Abbey, 7.00pm-8.30pm:
Tickets are £15.00 and £8.00 (students/schools)
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