IEMĪLĒJIES ŠEKSPĪRS

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall

Comic drama in 2 acts

Translated from English by Evita Mamaja

Premiere on 30 November, 2019

 

The young poet and playwright Will Shakespeare experiences a creative crisis. The unwritten comedy has already been sold to two theatres, but the play itself doesn’t exist. Neither threats from the theatre owners’, nor support from the best friend Kit Marlowe can help. He needs inspiration. And a muse.

The beautiful and rich Viola de Lesseps is in love with poetry and theatre. She knows by heart all the plays of the young author. Unfortunately, it is forbidden that women could play on stage. But where could Will Shakespeare find a better actor for his “Romeo and Juliet” – the most beautiful love story in the world?

 

Cast:  Dainis Grūbe (Will Shakespeare, poet and playwright), Ieva Segliņa (Viola de Lesseps), Lauris Subatnieks (Kit Marlowe), Olga Dreģe (Nurse), Ģirts Ķesteris (Lord Wessex, betrothed to Viola), Juris Bartkevičs or Imants Strads (Henslowe, owner of the Rose Theatre), Pēteris Liepiņš (Richard Burbage, lead actor of the Chamberlain’s Men), Artis Robežnieks (Fennyman), Indra Briķe (Queen Elizabeth I), Dainis Gaidelis (Edmund Tilney, the Lord Chamberlain), Gunārs Placēns (Sir Robert de Lesseps, Viola’s father), Gints Grāvelis (Ralph, novice actor), Mārtiņš Počs (Robin, novice actor), Mārtiņš Upenieks (Adam, novice actor), Kaspars Zāle (John Webster, street urchin), Pēteris Gaudiņš (Wabash, Henslowe’s tailor), Lauris Dzelzītis (Ned Alleyn, lead actor of the Admiral’s Men), Toms Treinis (Sam, actor), Anete Krasovska, Inga Krasovska (Molly & Kate, tavern whores / Courtiers), Juris Strenga (Boatman)

 

Director – Rolands Atkočūns

Set designer – Mārtiņš Vilkārsis

Costume designer – Ilze Vītoliņa

Composer – Giedrius Puskunigis

Choreographer – Inga Krasovska

Video artist – Artis Dzērve

Lighting designer – Oskars Pauliņš

Fighting instructor – Uldis Veispals

 

Originally produced on the West End by Disney Theatrical Productions & Sonia Friedman Productions, directed by Declan Donnellan, and designed by Nick Ormerod

 
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